Collection Usage Policies
The library encourages and promotes use of its collections. The materials in the Archives and Special Collections do not circulate. They are available to students, faculty, scholars, and the public for consultation and research in the reading room of the department's facilities. Computer catalogs and databases, online research guides, and finding aids are available for reference.
- Personally owned computers may be used if their operation is quiet.
- Use of items such as tape recorders, scanners, or cameras must be approved by staff.
- No food or drinks are permitted.
- A photocopying machine is available for researchers' use in copying materials from manuscript collections. However, there are copying restrictions on bound and fragile materials.
- Researchers needing photographs or digital scans should consult staff about our photographic services.
- Digitized reproductions of materials in manuscript collections are for personal research only and are not to be further reproduced or placed in another repository without prior written permission from the Archives and Special Collections staff.
- Special Collections & University Archives staff will provide a maximum of twenty (20) scanned pages per patron.
- All patrons must attend to people in their care while in Special Collections & University Archives.
