4th August 2008, 01:06 PM
Doc,
In my experience when a museum or archive ups its charges (fairly or not), then the units have to pay the going rate whether its what was originally budgetted for or not. As the larger projects can span several years this often leaves a considerable discrepancy. So, hardline and unpleasant as it may be the units that have pending archives already accepted in principle will ahve to accept this and bite the bullet. But it does highlight why giving them as much notice of forthcoming charge increases is so very important.
Historic Building,
Excellent point on CBM, even for larger sites I generally find 2-4 decent size archive boxes (at most) are sufficient to retain, unless you have a series of complete Roman roof tiles/Medieval floor tiles etc. Retention/discard policies may seem savage but in the long term make sense provided recording has been undertaken thoroughly.
In my experience when a museum or archive ups its charges (fairly or not), then the units have to pay the going rate whether its what was originally budgetted for or not. As the larger projects can span several years this often leaves a considerable discrepancy. So, hardline and unpleasant as it may be the units that have pending archives already accepted in principle will ahve to accept this and bite the bullet. But it does highlight why giving them as much notice of forthcoming charge increases is so very important.
Historic Building,
Excellent point on CBM, even for larger sites I generally find 2-4 decent size archive boxes (at most) are sufficient to retain, unless you have a series of complete Roman roof tiles/Medieval floor tiles etc. Retention/discard policies may seem savage but in the long term make sense provided recording has been undertaken thoroughly.