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Re: Advice needed - soliciting funds from archival donors



 I've always had mixed feelings at soliciting processing funds from
> organizations that donate records.  In some cases, the organization
> does indeed have such resources, and in others, they do not.  The
> question for them is why give the archives our records and pay them
> to process them....we can just keep them and use the funds internally!

The way I've sold this a few times was by pointing out that before
they gave their records to us and helped us defray the costs of
processing, they had possession.  Now they have access.
Not the same thing at all.  And it never hurts to ask, as Dean points out,
the worst they'll do is say no.

Saturday mornings on the desk, ah,


Roy Webb, C.A.
Multimedia Archivist
Special Collections
J. Willard Marriott Library
295 South 1500 East
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah   84112
(801) 585-3073  //  fax (801) 585-3976
rwebb@library.utah.edu

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