[Genealib] Donated Genealogy Research

[Lyles, John]

We have a policy of discarding "the work" and retaining the "product"
unless you deem the "work" to have historical or evidential value. 

John Lyles
Archivist
Chattahoochee Valley Libraries
3000 Macon Road
Columbus, GA 31906
706-243-2681




-----Original Message-----
From: genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
[mailto:genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu] On Behalf Of Debra
Osborne Spindle
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:24 PM
To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
Subject: [Genealib] Donated Genealogy Research

Please tell me what your agency does when someone wants to donate Aunt
Fannie's 35 years of research files. (Much of what is in that file is
photocopies of materials we hold in the library.)  We're not talking
about
books or pedigree charts or family group sheets, but copies of census
records and handwritten notes and photocopies of articles.

Do you have a portion of your written policy that addresses this?

We will appreciate any advice you have to offer us.  I think I know what
I
would do but I have colleagues who want to know what others do. And it
is
always helpful to hear from others in the trenches.  (We are working
with
both a library and a manuscript archive.)

Thank you for your help--


Debra

Debra Osborne Spindle, PhD, MLIS
Reference Librarian

Oklahoma Historical Society
Research Division
2401 N. Laird
Oklahoma City, OK  73132
405.522.5239
www.okhistory.org

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