[Genealib] Footnote.com

[lcarter at arlsmail.org]

People can register for free to search at home or anywhere and will get
preview images that can help them determine if the hit is what they
want.  Then they can come to the library to get the images using our
subscription.

Laura

> You have all said so many
good thing that I emailed to start a
> trial...They
> said
it would only be $500 for us, which would be great.
> 
>
Can they access the instituitional membership from home, or is it
> in-library
> use only?
> 
> Larry
Oathout
> Director
> Tell City-Perry County Library
> Tell City, IN 47586
> 812-547-2661
> (Fax)
547-3038
> www.tcpclibrary.org
> 
> 
>
-----Original Message-----
>
From: lcarter at arlsmail.org
> To: "Librarians Serving Genealogists"
<genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009
10:32:36 -0500 (EST)
> Subject: Re: [Genealib] Footnote.com
> 
> We have an institutional subscription and love it,
because our patrons
> that
> have used it love it!   We
find it affordable which many of these are not
> on
> our
limited budget. One thing that makes it worthwhile for us, is that our
> patrons can search it from home with the basic registration and get
the
> preview images to see if it is really what they want, then
come into the
> Heritage Room and download the images using our
subscription.
> 
> One of the series we are particularly
happy to see being digitized is the
> Southern Claims Commission
records.  These have really great information
> and
> the
St. Louis County Library has a really good guide online as to how to
> use
> them.   These can be really helpful for African
American researchers. 
> SLCL
> also has the descriptive
pamphlet online at their web site. To learn more
> about these go
to http://www.slcl.org/branches/hq/sc/jkh/sc_jkh_fd.htm
> Ruth Ann
Hager has spent much time working in the Southern Claims
>
Commission
> records and made it easier for us to use.
>

> I am willing to wait for the high quality images, but it does
require
> patience.   I also have enjoyed working with our
representative, very
> accessible when we have had problems with
the state server.
> 
> Laura
> 
> Laura W.
Carter
> Heritage Room Librarian
> Athens-Clarke County
Library
> 2025 Baxter Street
> Athens, GA 30606
>
Voice (706) 613-3650 Ext. 350
> Fax (706) 613-3660
> 
>> Is anyone on the list using Footnote.com? If so, what do you
think of
>> it?
>>
>> Is there an
institutional subscription available? Or just personal
>>
subscriptions?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Nancy
>>
>> Nancy M. Miller, MSLS
>> Collection Development Librarian
>> Virginia Beach
Public Library
>> 4100 Virginia Beach Blvd.
>>
Virginia Beach, VA 23452-1767
>> 757-385-0163
>>
757-431-3741 FAX
>>
nmiller at vbgov.com<mailto:nmiller at vbgov.com>
>>
vbgov.com/libraries
>>
>>
>>
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