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

Résumé

NARA will hold a meeting to discuss the continued privatization of reproduction services for still pictures, aerial film, maps, and drawings. On March 6, 1995, NARA began to test new procedures for the delivery of reproduction services for records which NARA customers request from Still Picture Branch (NNSP), the Cartographic and Architectural Branch (NNSC), and the Nixon Presidential Materials Staff (NLNP). NARA permitted vendors to set up work stations in its building located in College Park, MD, where the still photographs and cartographic and architectural records are housed and made available. The three NARA units referred customer requests for reproduction of these media to the vendors, who determined fees, collected payments, performed the copying work, and mailed the reproductions to the customers. The purpose of this one-year trail program was to: (1) Verify the degree to which the privatization of the reproduction order fulfillments of NNSP, NNSC, and NLNP could improve customer service; and (2) ascertain the extent to which digital scanning can satisfy requirements from NARA's customers. At the end of the first year, based on a satisfactory review of the program's overal