<div dir="ltr">Hurt/Battelle Memorial Library (I think I can reasonably respond to this topic on their behalf!), similarly to Anne Lowery's comments, also has a central networked public-use copier with scan-to-file capabilities that patrons may use. The library only charges for actual prints...regardless of whether it's a straight-up document copy or a print job from a public computer, it's the same price. Scanning a document to a file is free. As Anne said, "<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">not using toner, paper, etc."</span><div>
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Patrons may scan to a central, public file repository which is accessible from the patron computers. The patrons can then make use of the patron computer to manipulate the scanned document, save it to USB devices, e-mail it, print it, whatever they can do with a data file. When they are done, they can also delete the document from the repository. Any documents left over auto-delete after a set period of time.</span></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Jessica D. Dooley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dooleyje@oplin.org" target="_blank">dooleyje@oplin.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Would you share your opinions and practices about charging patrons for document scanning? If your library provides the public with self-serve document scanning, is it free, or do you charge? We currently provide document scanning (to USB only) free of charge, via our coin-op managed public copiers. We’re planning to make the switch to a Book Scan center, that offers copying/faxing/scanning/printing, all in one unit. Our vendor would like us to charge for scanning, just as for the other services, but I’m not entirely comfortable charging for an ephemeral service. Are any libraries currently charging patrons for scanning?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for your feedback,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Jessica D. Dooley<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
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