Using
our Collections
Special Collections, St. Lawrence University Libraries
Hours:The Frank and Anne Piskor Reading Room is open Monday - Friday: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Additionally, the room is open Wednesday evening during the Spring Semester from 6 to 9 p.m. Closed on Saturdays and Sundays as well as all holidays when the library is closed. Check the hours of the main library for holiday openings.
Guidelines
for collection use
Anyone is welcome to use the special collections and archives. If
you are coming from out-of-town, we would prefer that you contact us ahead
of time so that we can make any necessary preparations, but if that is
not possible, please feel free to visit anyway. Before using the collections,
you will be required to present valid identification and fill out a request
to examine specific materials. None of the items in these collections
circulate, and all must be used within our reading room. Users are welcome
to bring laptop computers. If you are taking notes manually, you must
use only pencils--no ball-point or fountain pens are allowed.
Photocopying
Although users may not photocopy material themselves, our staff will
make copies for you at a charge of .15 cents/exposure and $2.50/quarter
hour, provided the item is strong enough to withstand copying. We reserve
the right to limit the number of photocopies made for any patron.
Proper
form for citing the collections
Please give credit to St. Lawrence University in any publications
of archival or special collections materials, using the following form:
Collection Name, Special Collections, St. Lawrence University Libraries,
Canton NY. Plans for publication of any material from our collections
should be discussed with the curator of special collections.
Copyright
information
Users should be aware that in many cases we do not own the literary
rights to the collections under our care. According to law, the writer
of a letter or unpublished manuscript has the sole right to publish the
contents thereof, unless s/he specifically gives up that right. Regardless
of the physical ownership of the manuscript itself, that right remains
with the writer and his or her heirs. Therefore, it is the responsibility
of an author to secure permission of the owner of the literary property
rights when quoting any unpublished material from the collection.
