[Genealib] fees

[Tracy Luscombe]

Just to throw in my two-cents worth. We have the local paper obituaries
indexed. We do not charge anything to make a copy of an obituary and
send it to them, either by snail mail or email attachment. We simply
tell folks that donations are appreciated. Almost everybody sends a
donation that at least covers postage. This is for out of town people.
For local people we ask them to come in a make the copies themselves. 

Beyond obituaries we have a two-volume set of books called Collin County
Families and two-volume set of Collin County Cemeteries. We'll also make
copies of pages of these books at no charge. 

Any more extensive research is considered outside the scope of our
services. 

Tracy E. Luscombe
Genealogy Librarian
McKinney Memorial Public Library
101 E. Hunt Street
McKinney, TX 75069
tluscombe at mckinneytexas.org
972-547-7343
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From: genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
[mailto:genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu] On Behalf Of Niki
Stallings
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 2:08 PM
To: 'Librarians Serving Genealogists'
Subject: RE: [Genealib] fees

Thanks to everyone who gave me their feedback on how much they charge
for
research.  I was shocked at the low amount everyone is charging.  We
charge
$20.00 per hour.  If it takes longer than 15 minutes we do not charge a
research fee...just a fee for copies & postage.  We were thinking about
charging a per obituary fee (we have an obituary index online now that
has
the past 10-15 years in it and is being worked on daily to add more)
since
we're starting to get more requests.

We've also ran across several times recently someone wanting us to scan
and
email them our information....we don't care to do this for free, but
some
patrons would tend to take advantage of the free service and start
asking
for a lot.  We've thought about applying our regular research fee to
this
service as well.

I've wanted to start using paypal for payment but our director is not
open
to that suggestion, but I think it would be a wonderful addition to our
services.

Niki Stallings
Head of Technical Services
Henderson County Public Library
101 South Main Street
Henderson, Kentucky   42420


-----Original Message-----
From: genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
[mailto:genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu] On Behalf Of Local
History
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 12:02 PM
To: Librarians Serving Genealogists
Subject: [Genealib] fees

Most of us seem to be charging small fees for research requests.  For
off 
site requests, we have been charging $5 plus $0.25 per page for obits,
city 
directory info, basic lookups that take less than 30 minutes.  Some are 
pre-paid or we include an invoice with the materials.  Is anyone using 
PayPal or a similar system for credit card payments of genealogy
research 
fees or obit request fees?
Thanks,

Julie H. Bartlett
Archivist
Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library & Museum
Hampshire Room for Local History
Forbes Library
20 West St.
Northampton, MA  01060
(413) 587-1014
jbartlett at forbeslibrary.org 


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