Here is one more link - from the ALA - http://www.ala.org/offices/oif/ifissues/issuesrelatedlinks/respondingfoia Corey Seeman Director, Kresge Library Services (http://www.bus.umich.edu/kresgelibrary/) Stephen M. Ross School of Business University of Michigan 701 Tappan Street, Modular Offices Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1234 (734) 764-9969 Cell Phone (734) 717-9734 Fax (734) 764-4162 cseeman@umich.edu Twitter @cseeman Google+ https://plus.google.com/117345227585597362675 ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8205-1255 Corey's Web Home: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cseeman/index.html On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Corey Seeman <cseeman@umich.edu> wrote:
There are some really useful FOIA requests - "just because" is not one of them.
It seems that Smartprocure ( http://smartprocure.us/understand-smartprocure/) is trying to build a central database to help businesses - relying on FOIA requests and then reselling the data to businesses. It might be they are reaching out to all public libraries in the state - just on a fishing expedition.
This is the information on FOIA from the University of Michigan - http://foia.vpcomm.umich.edu/ All requests have a more finite structure and scope. Everything over the last five years seems a bit much - especially if it is someone outside the state (they are from Florida). However, they might be working with a Michigan customer.
The Library of Michigan has a nice resource page for trustee info which might be useful:
http://michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/0,2351,7-160-18668_69405_18689---,00.h...
Michigan Library Association had a workshop on this in April. Maybe people who went can chime in. Sounds like a good topic for future MLA sessions.
I have seen some expensive charges from governmental entities - sometimes excessively high - for FOIA requests. I do not encourage people to come up with high fees - just what is covered to reasonably do the work. I would let them know what it will cost and what they are looking at.
And when they say...why are you charging so much - you can talk about the effort involved in this work - or simply say.... we are charging this "just because".
Best - Corey
Corey Seeman
Director, Kresge Library Services (http://www.bus.umich.edu/kresgelibrary/ ) Stephen M. Ross School of Business University of Michigan 701 Tappan Street, Modular Offices Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1234 (734) 764-9969 Cell Phone (734) 717-9734 Fax (734) 764-4162 cseeman@umich.edu Twitter @cseeman Google+ https://plus.google.com/117345227585597362675 ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8205-1255 Corey's Web Home: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cseeman/index.html
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:29 AM, deb bose <gntdb@llcoop.org> wrote:
Has anyone received a message from Smartprocure for all your libraries invoices and vendors for the last five years to upload electronically to their database.
I called the person who sent the e-mail and she told me they just collect millions of public records-just because.
Anyone experience this type of request before?
Thanks for your responses,
Deb
Deborah L. Bose, Director Grant Area District Library 122 Elder St. Grant, MI 49327
231-834-5713 t 231-834-9705 f
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