access to archives

[BOURASSA ANDRE G]

Radio-Canada, in Montreal, charges now $60, per hour. I decided not to go
anymore.
Andre G. Bourassa.


On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Kathy Chung wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Just thought I'd throw out something for discussion:
>
> I've been told several times that the powers that be at the Stratford
> Festival charges researchers an hourly fee to use their archives and
> wondered if it were so.  I've just had it confirmed that yes, this is so
> and the cost is: $10/hr for those with university affiliation, $15/hr if
> not.
>
> I might just be naive and I certainly haven't visited as many archives as
> others, but none of the archives I've ever visited charged me for their
> use -- albeit most have been either university or government archives.
> So, I thought I'd ask people on CANDRAMA:
>
> (1) is it unusual, common, or something in between for archives to charge
> for their use?
>
> (1) do you know of other archives which charge users for access?  if so,
> how much?
>
> (2) might you like to comment on how situations such as at Stratford
> will/did influence research, your own or in general?
>
>
> ---- Kathy.
> ______________________________________
> Kathy Chung <kchung at chass.utoronto.ca>
> Graduate Centre for Study of Drama
> University of Toronto, Canada
>