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Services
Scanning
Patrons may bring digital cameras into the reading room as long as they abide by the rules for researchers and handle all materials with care. Permission should
be sought from Special Collections staff prior to digitally
photographing collections to ensure that donor agreements and copyright
laws are not violated. No personal scanners are permitted in the
reading room. Permission to scan entire books or large portions of
manuscript collections will not be granted.
Photography
Patrons may bring cameras into the reading room as long as they abide by the rules for researchers and handle all materials with care. Permission should
be sought from Special Collections staff prior to photographing
collections to ensure that donor agreements and copyright laws are not
violated. No flash bulbs, flash attachments, or other lighting
equipment are permitted in the reading room. Permission to scan entire
books or large portions of manuscript collections will not be granted.
Permission to Reproduce/Publish
Permission to publish materials from the collections must
be requested and approved in writing. Please use the permission to
publish form.
Lending
The collections in Special Collections and Archives are
non-circulating and cannot be checked out or loaned. All collections
must be used in the secure reading room.
Researcher Registration and Rules
All researchers are required to register with Special Collections and provide photo identification before
requesting collection materials. Materials are stored in closed stacks
and retrieved by staff upon request for use in the reading room. Food
and drink are not permitted in the reading room.
Patrons must secure briefcases, book
bags, purses, and other belongings in lockers. Patrons may only bring
loose sheets of paper, pencils, laptop computers, and cameras into the
reading room.
To preserve and protect the rare
collections for future use, researchers are asked to handle the
collections as carefully as possible without marking on or leaning on
them. Staff can provide book cradles or other supports to protect
fragile bound volumes from damage during use. For certain items,
researchers must use the digital, microfilm, or other surrogates that
are available to help preserve the fragile original documents.
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Letter from Charles Darwin to Edward Forbes inside Special Collection’s first edition of On the Origin of Species (1859).
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