Information for Visitors

ENTRANCE FEE:

None.

The archives and manuscript collections are only open to researchers Monday through Friday, 1 - 4:30 pm.

However, if you're just planning on visiting the regular library, its hours are Monday through Friday from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm.

The library is closed on all the usual holidays:

New Year's Day
Martin Luther King's Birthday
President's Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day

Columbus Day
Thanksgiving Day
Day after Thanksgiving
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day

A "current photo ID" is all that's required.

Photocopies: self service photocopies are 25 cents a piece.

Digital Camera: Personal digital cameras are not allowed. The library offers to photography any material for pretty heft cost.

This library is a bit of a smaller operation than others, which means you won't be in your own reading room, but rather just sitting at a table nearby the other librarians' desks. Because of the more intimate environment, you should be able to meet with the librarian, and ask her if you have any questions. Some of the collections here are especially delicate, so you are expected to be careful, but overall the atmosphere isn't very stuffy, and its a comfortable place to work.
You must complete a registration form on your first visit, but its pretty standard fare.

Visit the visitor's portion of the website for any more information or updates.

Appointments are REQUIRED before visiting to do research with the manuscript collections.

Eileen Mathias. Information Services Librarian.

mathias@ansp.org

215-299-1140