3rd January 2013, 09:23 PM
I agree it is getting a bit excitable... however, the fair point remains...
If I phone up and ask what is available... and pay the going rate. what sort of information is being withheld that I (theoretically ) would have to travel in person to the office.
If I am told there is x number of reports, done by the diddleswick archaeology society... in 1975 and only available in a paper copy, then I could say... could you photocopy it for me - at the going rate.... rather than me having to travel down to watch the HER photocopy the info.
The main question is why a physical trip to the HER is required, when it can all be done on the phone and email. --- especially if the HER is a couple of hundred miles round trip.
Now before people panic - this is not me!
and indeed I recently had a brilliant conversation with an HER person who provided all the ifo and more that I needed. THE REASON WE NEED HERs!!!! but I did it... wait for it... on the phone!
amazing this technology!
Not to have would have required me to wait til monday ( if was Friday afternoon) and then I would have lost a day, travelling to the HER, sitting around and getting the same info.
Go figure?
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If I phone up and ask what is available... and pay the going rate. what sort of information is being withheld that I (theoretically ) would have to travel in person to the office.
If I am told there is x number of reports, done by the diddleswick archaeology society... in 1975 and only available in a paper copy, then I could say... could you photocopy it for me - at the going rate.... rather than me having to travel down to watch the HER photocopy the info.
The main question is why a physical trip to the HER is required, when it can all be done on the phone and email. --- especially if the HER is a couple of hundred miles round trip.
Now before people panic - this is not me!
and indeed I recently had a brilliant conversation with an HER person who provided all the ifo and more that I needed. THE REASON WE NEED HERs!!!! but I did it... wait for it... on the phone!
amazing this technology!
Not to have would have required me to wait til monday ( if was Friday afternoon) and then I would have lost a day, travelling to the HER, sitting around and getting the same info.
Go figure?
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Quote:If you haven't done the proper research, i.e. visited the actual HER office to check the sources, then you would be responsibly for the F-up.I quite agree. though a visit in person may not be the first approach...