[Genealib] NEHGS benefits - Institutional member?

[Libby Feil]

At my urging, my library purchased an institutional membership in 
NEHGS last year, largely to give our patrons access to 
www.newenglandancestors.org.  Our patrons cannot view this database 
from home, but they can indeed view it at any of our multiple 
locations--our main library and all our branches...  So unless the 
"one physical location" part is a very new requirement, I do think 
it's possible to use this database in a multiple-branch system.

We wanted to subscribe for the same reasons that the Virginia 
correspondent mentioned previously.  Although we are not in New 
England, many of our patrons have ancestors who came from New 
England, New York, Eastern Canada, England, and Ireland, which are 
all covered in the NEHGS databases.  Our patrons with ancestors from 
these areas really enjoy these databases.  And this web site just 
keeps getting better, as the NEHGS seems to be shifting from 
abstracting records to posting digital facsimiles of the original 
records.  I also appreciate their advice and information articles, 
which are a great resource for genealogists, beginning and 
experienced.

>  We looked into getting a subscription to NEHGS, but can not do so.
>  NEHGS specifies that a library must use one IP in one physical location.
>  We could not subscribe because our library is in a multiple library
>  district that covers six counties.
-- 

Elizabeth "Libby" Feil

Librarian and Assistant Manager of Reference
Head, Local History & Genealogy Room
St. Joseph County Public Library
304 So. Main Street
South Bend, IN  46601

574-235-4181
l.feil at sjcpl.org
AIM:  sjcpllibby
http://www.libraryforlife.org/localhistory