[Genealib] Too Good To Be True - "Free" Access to Newspaper Archive

[Elaine Hayes]

Thank you Charlotte this information is REALLY helpful to all of us
considering this database.
Elaine Hayes
 
Elaine Jones Hayes
Special Collections Librarian
Laramie County Library System
2800 Central Avenue
Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001
ehayes at lclsonline.org
307-634-3561
 
"Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment
 of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment."
-  Library Bill of Rights
 
 
 



>>> csellers at japl.lib.in.us 8/9/2006 8:07 AM >>>


Elaine and others,
Our library checked on this - because through a personal subscription I
had found the newspaper archive to be useful. An email sent to us said,
"Access NewspaperARCHIVE is a new program that gives public libraries
and K-12 schools around the world FREE access to NewspaperARCHIVE.com's
historical newspaper database." The emphasis on free was in the original
message. In a followup mesage, the company said access was to all other
states and we would have to pay $71.40 a year for access to newspapers
in our state. Seemed like a strange deal, but okay. 
So my supervisor emailed for an invoice and got this reply from Jeff
Brown, account manager at Heritage Microfilm:
"The $71 subscription is an individual subscription and provides an
individual a username and password.  This is not an institutional access
subscription, so it would not be able to be used my multiple persons. 
...  The institutional access subscription is $2500 per year."
Our library cannot afford access. What about this reminds me of bait
and switch?
Charlotte Sellers
Jackson County Public Library
303 West 2nd Street
Seymour IN  47274
csellers at japl.lib.in.us

---original message to genealib --- 8/3/2006 5:58 pm >>>
Our library recieved an advertisement from Heritage Microfilm regarding
FREE access to a database called Access Newspaper ARCHIVE to public
libraries and K-12 schools.  The letter says that the ARCHIVE "allows
your library's patrons to search tens of millions of newspaper pages in
our achive for FREE"  and that it "provides... Full-page newspapers from
1759-1977".  This sounds too good to be true.  ...  Also is there
some kind of a "catch" involved - nothing is ever really free is it?
Thanks,
Elaine Hayes

Elaine Jones Hayes
Special Collections Librarian
Laramie County Library System
2800 Central Avenue
Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001
ehayes at lclsonline.org 
307-634-3561

"Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment
of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment."
-  Library Bill of Rights
 

Text from original email
Public libraries and K-12 schools can sign up for this free service by
calling Heritage Microfilm's customer service at 1-888-870-0484 ext. 30
or by simply downloading a sign-up form and faxing the completed form to
319-390-9442. Upon sign-up, we will need your IP addresses and your
institution's contact information, including an email address. Signing
up to Access NewspaperARCHIVE is just the first step to making research
simple and fun. We believe that together, we can revolutionize the world
of research for generations to come.
http://access.newspaperarchive.com/InvalidIP.aspx
Text fromHow does Access NewspaperARCHIVE work?
By subscribing to Access NewspaperARCHIVE, your entire school or
library will be given access to our newspaper database through your
institution's IP addresses. Anyone on your network can then search
Access NewspaperARCHIVE's collection of newspaper pages at
Access.NewspaperArchive.com. A librarian will also be given a user name
and password to use our administrative tools, which will allow you to
see statistics describing how your institution is using our database.How
much does it cost?
Access NewspaperARCHIVE is available for FREE to all K-12 schools and
public libraries. At no cost to you, your students or patrons can
search, view, save and print full-page newspapers from any computer with
network access in your facility. Free access will include searchable
newspapers from around the world, excluding your institution's local
state. Content within your state/province and newspapers after 1977 are
only available by upgrading your service to Access NewspaperARCHIVE
Pro.

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