Our local historical society is preparing a policy statement indicating its "intent to allow reasonable access to the collections by persons with legitimate reasons to access them" as required by charter under the NYS Board of Regents. It is not clear if "access" means simply the ability to view the collections or also includes some way to obtain copies of documents in the collections. In particular, we would like to make a clear statement about the conditions and limitations involved with patrons wishing to copy/reproduce documents in the collection by photographic or electronic (scanning) methods. Three of the areas to which this statement would apply are documents that have no copyright protection, those that have been prepared by an individual or organization and that carry a current copyright and those that have been prepared and are copyright protected by our Society. If you have any suggestions and/or experiences relative to this matter, we would appreciate having you share them with us. Please post to my personal address unless you think the topic is of general interest to the List. Thank you. Fletcher