I am beginning to wonder if its just a way to sell products ( copies of which THEY photographed themselves) to make Revenue.
Wnet into a n Archives a few years ago to look up old records of which the secuirty desk only allowed few paople at at ime to enter a locked room.
We were not allowed pens, cameras, phones etc
ONLY one tiny pencil that they gave to each who entered.
Kind of extreme, but it makes mw wonder in the past DID someone write or cut out documents,photogrpahs and so on to take these drastic mesures?
I was pissed that day when told tht I could NOT get a copy of an old newspaper article , after spending three hours searching for it?
Just too proctective of there holdings and NO other way to get copies?
I left frustrated and tod them at the desk to have it posted in large letters of what we can and cannot do BEFORE we spend three hours of searching only to be told that it can’t be copied?