----- Original Message -----
From: "Paula Wiegand" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: NARA - Changes to Hours


> On 6 Aug 2006 at 9:34, Excalibur131 wrote:
>
>> Was any thought given to finding out "why" no Records were pulled
>> during the night or weekend hours?
<snip>

> The simple answer to this is that records are only pulled 6 times a
> day (on the half hour from 9.30 to 3.30 excluding 1.30). Closing on
> Mondays will cut 6 pulls. If the archives remains open on Saturdays,
> the records requested on that day would not be pulled until Tuesday.
> There does not appear to be any plan to increase the number of
> pulls, although NARA has been made aware that the proposed
> shorter hours make the 9.30 and 3.30 pulls somewhat redundant.
>
> Paula Wiegand

My response to them would have been to close Mondays and move Monday pulls
to Saturday. Now I wonder, did they consider that just maybe they might see
an increased patronage on Saturdays if they did pulls then?

Tom
Royalty to Rogues
http://www.l-dunaway.net/

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