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Re: Monetary Appraisals



This is addressed, at least in part, by the following:
        "In accordance with regulation of the IRS and the guidelines
accepted by the ACRL, archivists should not appraise, for tax purposes,
donations to their own instutitions . . ."
        Source: A Code of Ethics for Archivists with Commentary.  available:
http://www.archivists.org/governance/handbook/app_ethics.html
        Having just completed an introductory course in archives, we learned
that monetary valuation (at least for tax purposes) should be ascribed by a
dis-interested third party--i.e. not the donor nor the receiving institution.

Tom Mueller

At 02:26 PM 12/17/00 -0500, you wrote:
>My name is Joe Gillette, and I'm the archivist at the Orange County
Regional History Center in Orlando, FL. I have a question I'm hoping someone
out there has experience with and can give me some pointers. My boss has
recently informed me that when we catalog new accessions to our collection
(this goes for objects, papers, and photos), we now need to provide some
kind of monetary value to the item(s). I have absolutely no idea how to do
this. It's something to which I have never had any exposure. How does one
attach a monetary value to archival papers? Is there a standard set of rules
I should use? If so, what are they, and is there any kind of published
sourcebook out there somewhere I could obtain, similar to the kind of
resources museum curators, collectors, auctioneers, and insurance appraisers
might use? If there isn't, what kind of general guidelines are used within
the profession to attach a monetary value to archival papers? Like I said, I
have no experience with such things, and I'm hoping someone out there can
help me out. Thanks much.
>
>Joe Gillette
>Orange County Regional History Center
>Orlando, FL
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>at the Orange County Regional History Center in Orlando, FL. I have a question
>I'm hoping someone out there has experience with and can give me some
pointers.
>My boss has recently informed me that when we catalog new accessions to our
>collection (this goes for objects, papers, and photos), we now need to provide
>some kind of monetary value to the item(s). I have absolutely no idea how
to do
>this. It's something to which I have never had any exposure. How does one
attach
>a monetary value to archival papers? Is there a standard set of rules I should
>use? If so, what are they, and is there any kind of published sourcebook out
>there somewhere I could obtain, similar to the kind of resources museum
>curators, collectors, auctioneers, and insurance appraisers might use? If
there
>isn't, what kind of general guidelines are used within the profession to
attach
>a monetary value to archival papers? Like I said, I have no experience with
such
>things, and I'm hoping someone out there can help me out. Thanks
>much.</FONT></DIV>
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