How to get the documents from the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts

- Documents from the Department can be used in the Professors’ Reading Room only.  Exceptions are particularly valuable manuscripts, archival collections, and dilapidated documents. You can work with these items in the Department Rooms 2 and 25 located on the first floor of the library’s Old Building.

- If the documents you are requesting have been digitized, you can get the originals only upon approval by the Department staff members.

- If you want to work with manuscripts, archival collections and documents published before 1850, it is required to submit a letter of request indicating your research topic. It is also necessary to fill out a form. Hand in the letter and the completed form to a Department staff member in Room 2 located on the first floor of the library’s Old Building.

- Documents from the Department’s stock listed in the E-catalog can be requested by selecting the Place hold option. They will be delivered to the Professors’ Reading Room.

- Documents from the Department’s stock not listed in the E-catalog can be found and requested via the Image Catalog.

- You may also use call slips to request documents. They are available in the Information Center 24/7 and in the Department’s Rooms 2 and 25. Fill out a call slip indicating the accession number of the document you need, its author, title, year of publication, volume, issue (if applicable), your full name, and date. Give that call slip to a librarian in the Information Center 24/7.