[TN-Bird] Re: TOS Archives and Collections

In a message dated 4/30/03 7:45:47 PM Central Daylight Time, 
cpnichol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> Gentle Readers (and the rest of you),
> As I have told some of you recently, supporting documentation for rare bird
> records through about 1997 is in the special collections at the University
> of Tennessee, as are many other historic TOS papers.  The rare bird
> documentation material includes the sighting forms submitted to the bird
> records committee, some photos (some of which have been published), some
> drawings, and the committee voting forms.  Below is an inventory of this
> material.
> 

Gentle Readers and Chuck,

If you have told others just recently about these records, what happened to 
the many requests from TOS members that went long before and the open 
question asked on TN-Bird a month ago?

Asking questions and getting answers from officers of TOS should not be 
likened to the pulling of teeth. For 2 years responsible members of the TOS 
Records Committee have been asking simple questions but not getting any 
answers much less even a courteous excuse. It seems that the answers were 
possibly readily available (maybe not) but withheld for some unknown reason. 

Now for the other half of the question which failed to show up in your reply. 
This was the main point of the request in the first place and as an officer 
and curator of TOS you should not be reluctant to answer. What about access? 
Are these records open to any and everyone at anytime? Hopefully not. Who 
supervises such access? Are there specific times for such access? etc.

I'm sure other gentle souls would like to know. 

Thanks for the reply,

Jeff R. Wilson
OL' COOT / TLBA
Bartlett Tenn.


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