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Re: charges for research work



I had done some research into this same subject about a year ago and found
that many institutions charged $25/hour.

Governments (which we are) are somewhat different.  I found that some made a
distinction between resident and non-resident (member/nonmember?), so we now
charge $15/hour for residents (taxpayers) and $25/hour for non-residents
(non-taxpayers).  Again, because we are a government and subject to
right-to-know, the first half hour is gratis.  We also make a distinction
between "research" and pulling records from the stacks so that a person may
do his/her own research.  One might think this is a given, but we find that
we have to have some kind of definition as to how -- and when -- the
research charge clock starts ticking.

You may also want to distinguish between a per-copy charge when there is no
research fee involved and a per-copy charge when there is an hourly research
fee imposed. (When we charge for research, the first 12 photocopies are
free.  We also provide the citation of the source, if asked to.  When there
is no hourly research fee, we charge 75 cents for the first page and 10
cents per page thereafter.)

Paul R. Bergeron
City Clerk
229 Main Street
Nashua, NH 03060
Telephone: 603/589-3010
Fax: 603/589-3029
http://www.gonashua.com/



-----Original Message-----
From: Cindy Rosser [mailto:boringlibrarian@YAHOO.COM]
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 5:16 PM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: charges for research work


I'm taking over as an archivist after several years as
a reference librarian. I will continue to work aprox.
10 hrs. per week at the reference desk besides my work
as archivist. So, like most of y'all out there in
Archive Land, I'm pretty busy. Also, I don't exactly
have the largest budget to work with. Therefore, I'm
thinking of charging for research conducted for
out-of-town researchers. This would be for research
that takes a substantial amount of time, i.e. one or
more hours, not counting photocopying. My predecessor
never charged for anything except the photocopying.
What is a reasonable fee?
Should I base it on my hourly wage?
(Both as an example of what my employer feels my time
is worth and as a consideration of time not spent
doing my primary job, which deprives my employer of
the services for which they are paying.)
Please respond to me rather than the list.
TIA
Cindy Rosser
Archivst/Reference Librarian
UT-Permian Basin
Odessa, TX 79762
rosser_c@utpb.edu
AKA
boringlibrarian@yahoo.com

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