Public Meeting With Interested Vendors on a Proposal for Ordering Reproductions of Still Photographs, Aerial Film, Maps, and Drawings

Résumé

NARA will hold a public meeting with vendors to discuss a proposal to change procedures for ordering reproductions of archival still photographs, aerial film, maps, and drawings from the Still Picture Branch, Cartographic and Architectural Branch, and other units of the National Archives. The proposal would privatize the reporudction of these archival materials by allowing customers to place their order directly with vendors. In addition, NARA would assign work space to the vendors in its new building in College Park, MD, in order that the materials can be copied on its premises. The proposed procedures, which will be tested for a one-year trial period, are intended to expedite the reproduction ordering process and to ascertain the extent to which digital scanning can satisfy customer requirements.