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Special Collections

Using Special Collections

Guidance on handling material

All readers are asked to help preserve the items produced for their use by handling them very carefully.

  • When an item is in use, please place it on a bookrest or flat on the table. If necessary, use paper-weights, weighted chains, or sheets of perspex to hold it down; staff can supply these. Take special care that items do not hang over the edge of the table.
  • Do not mark items in any way nor make erasures of any kind. Ink may not be used and bottles of ink, food, drink, and other potentially harmful substances must not be brought into the search-room. Only pencils may be used for writing.
  • The surface of items should not be touched except when unavoidable. Please do not lean on items, rest anything on them, pile one open book on another, or place open volumes face down. Permission must be asked to make tracings.
  • Loose documents must be kept in the precise order in which they were issued. Do not remove items from files. Be careful not to obscure reference numbers when refolding or repacking items. Close one file or box before another is opened.
  • Please avoid placing strain on bindings, which are often fragile. If you receive a book tied up with tape, please replace the tape when you have finished with the book.
  • If you receive a book with uncut pages, ask staff to cut the pages for you. Do not try to open it yourself.
  • Tell staff about any damage which you discover in items you are using.
  • When in doubt on any point, please ask the staff for advice.

Requesting and returning material

Staff will be glad to give advice on the collections and the range of catalogues, handlists and indexes available. Readers should fill in a call-slip for each item they wish to see and deposit them in the basket at the supervisor's desk. Please tell a member of staff once you have finished with the item. Readers who finish with an item for the day but will require it again within a week should return it with a completed blue Reserve slip. Items returned without a Reserve slip will be reshelved. The number of files, boxes or volumes which a reader may have at one time will be restricted and the number of items produced in one day may also be restricted.

Please sign the search room day-book each day you use the collections.

Contact details

Special Collections
Palace Green Library
Palace Green
DURHAM
DH1 3RN
United Kingdom
Tel
: +44 (0)191 334 2972
Email: pg.library@durham.ac.uk
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