[PADG:833] Re: Exhibition Loan Agreements

[Gary Menges <menges@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Donia,

The ACRL Guidelines for Borrowing and Lending Special Collections 
Materials for Exhibition (January 2005) includes a Model for Loan 
Agreement Form. <http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/borrowguide.htm>

Gary

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Donia Conn wrote:

> Dear Collegues,
>
> I am researching the concept of exhibition loan
> agreements.  We do not currently have anything of the
> sort here at Northwestern yet we loan many items a
> year for outside exhibitions.  A search of the PADG
> archives did not bring up anything.  So, I have a few
> questions
>
> 1.  How extensive is your loan agreement policy?
>        By this I mean, do you include set fees for
> lending, set fees for any conservation or prep work,
> do you have a policy on prep work, do you require a
> site description with environmental conditions, do you
> have set timelines for requests, what do you do about
> photographs and credits for catalogues and labels...
>
> 2.  If you have a policy and form in place, would you
> please share it with me?
>
> 3.  How rigidly do you follow your policy?
>
> 4.  I have my own views, but what is your opinion on
> the importance of having a loan agreement policy
> (regardless of the size of institution)?
>
> At this point, I am just going for the overall/general
> view of things.
>
> Thank you for your assistance!
>
> Donia Conn
>
>
>
> Donia Conn
> Head of Conservation
> Northwestern University Library
> 1970 Campus Dr.
> Evanston, IL 60208
> (847)491-7607
> d-conn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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