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Services Information

Please note the following levels of services available to our research community. Please feel free to revisit this page for any updates.

Services Available (updated March 2026)

Cornell Users

  • We support and prioritize access, reference, and reproduction requests from current Cornell students and employees.
  • We provide basic bibliographic records and conservation assessment for urgent cases along with safe storage of collections already in our holdings.
  • Access to collections that lack a collection guide (box or folder description) require special arrangements made well in advance of a projected research visit. Please contact us well ahead of a projected research visit to make inquiry.

Non-Cornell Users

  • We respond to e-mailed reference questions
  • We respond to reproduction requests
  • We provide basic bibliographic records and conservation assessment for urgent cases along with safe storage of collections already in our holdings.
  • Access to collections that lack a collection guide (box or folder description) require special arrangements made well in advance of a projected research visit. Please contact us well ahead of a projected research visit to make inquiry.