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FW: selling photographic prints in association with exhibit...



> ----------
> From:         Bunker, Kevin
> Sent:         Wednesday, August 22, 2001 8:47 AM
> To:   'Bridgette Kelly'
> Subject:      RE: selling photographic prints in association with
> exhibit...
>
> Bridgette:
>
> If you're not already stamping (with permanent ink or a pre-printed
> permanent label) your patron-sale photos and other reproductions with a
> more-or-less standard "For Reference Use Only - Permission for publication
> or reproduction must be secured in writing......Original Image/Document in
> the Collection of Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens..." plus having
> your buyer/patron sign a bill of sale with terms of purchase/use on verso,
> then you're bases are not all covered.
>
> It would be a bit different is you were selling bulk-reproductions of the
> images in a gift shop setting. But because you suggest that this would be
> a custom order thing, you still hold institutional control, and I suggest
> your treat it like any other reference service process/request.
>
> The only other thing you might want to offer a buyer of these images is a
> short bio-sheet (with every purchase) re the exhibit and the Sieberling
> sons, to assure that the patron is getting the interpretive history side
> of the quotient.
>
> Best of luck, and don't run away. This is good outreach, and if handled
> well, can raise public perception of your institution a notch or three!
> Just think of it as good outreach and marketing, which usually has good
> payoff potential.
>
> Kevin V. Bunker
> Student Assistant
> CA State Archives
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> From:         Bridgette Kelly[SMTP:BKelly@STANHYWET.ORG]
> Reply To:     Bridgette Kelly
> Sent:         Wednesday, August 22, 2001 7:55 AM
> To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject:      selling photographic prints in association with exhibit...
>
> If you all would just bear with me for one more question....
>
> We are putting together an photographic exhibit based on the photography
> of
> one of the Seiberling sons that lived at Stan Hywet Hall. This is the
> first
> major exhibit we are putting together, and of course, everyone is trying
> to
> think of how much we can make off of it.
>
> One of the suggestions was to make available reproduction prints of the
> images in the exhibit. It would be one of those things where someone would
> order the print and we would then have it made at an outside photo lab. I
> have been charged with the task of compiling thumbnails of the images to
> be
> printed out on paper in an 'index' that would be available for customers
> to
> flip through at the museum store counter.
>
> As part of my nature, I am cautious about this (ok, really thinking "Run
> away - faster!!"). Unfortunately, the exhibit opens Sept. 7th, so there
> isn't much time to think this whole thing out. So I turn to my esteemed
> collegues on this list! :)
>
> Have any of you had an experience with this? Any tips, things to be aware
> of, advice, etc.? These reproductions are going to be available (the
> powers-that-be have decreed it), so there's no changing that. Most, but
> not
> all, of the images we have the original negative for (we have copy negs
> that
> would be used for repro.). If you have been through this, how much time
> was
> spent on reproducing? Were there any copyright issues? How did people
> respond to it? Am I just being over-cautious (hopefully) and all should be
> ok?
>
> Thank you in advance for your advice!
>
> Bridgette
>
> Bridgette A. Kelly, Special Collections Manager
> Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens
> 714 N. Portage Path
> Akron, OH  44303
> ph: 330-315-3232   fax: 330-836-2680
> BKelly@stanhywet.org   www.stanhywet.org
>
> Mark your calendars! We are preparing for one of the country's best arts
> and
> crafts festivals--The Wonderful World of Ohio Mart, October 4-7, 2001!
>
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