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Special Collections Services

Special Collections staff offer a range of services to help you learn from and enjoy the Collections: Enquiries, Visits, Fetch Service and Reprographics. We hope you will be happy with the help you receive: we appreciate your Feedback.

The Special Collections are available to all, subject to preservation and legal issues. See our Policies section for more detail about access and restrictions.

Enquiries

We are very pleased to help with enquiries relating to Special Collections. E-mail is the most reliable way to contact Special Collections. Please note:

We can only spend a short period of time on individual enquiries. For instance, we are not able to look through whole archives or runs of newspapers for you.
Our limited staffing means we do not currently offer a paid research service, though we may do so in future.

Visiting

We will try to help as much as we can remotely, but you may need to visit Special Collections to consult the collections in their physical form. Please contact us to arrange an appointment.

Guide for Visitors to Special Collections

Fetch service

University of Bradford staff and students in good standing with the Library may access certain modern Special Collections printed books without visiting the Reading Room via the Counter fetch service. Please ask at the J.B. Priestley Library Counter for the appropriate form. This service applies only to books with Reference status. It does NOT apply to Supervised books, archives, or maps.

Reprographics

To preserve our rare and unique materials for future readers, reproduction of Special Collections materials is carried out by and at the discretion of trained staff. All reproduction is subject to:

UK copyright law. Special Collections and copyright.
The condition of the original. We will only copy items which we believe can survive the process undamaged. For instance, we will not photocopy large, fragile or tightly bound volumes.

Non-commercial repro services

Services include photocopying up to A3, digitisation and digital photography. All requests should be accompanied by the appropriate form and payment. We can supply remote enquirers with a quotation for the cost of work before you submit your request.

For full details of services and costs: Non-Commercial Reprographic Services and Rates from 1 February 2008. (PDF format).

Non-Commercial Reprographic Request Forms (PDF format):

Commercial repro and publishing

For details of our commercial reprographics services or permission to publish, please contact the Special Collections Librarian.

Feedback

Please let us know if you found your visit useful. We hope to introduce automated feedback soon, but meanwhile, contact Special Collections via your usual method. We are always pleased to hear about dissertations, books, articles, art, or other works you produce as a result of your encounter with the Collections.

Complaints about any aspect of Special Collections services should be sent in writing to the Special Collections Librarian. If for any reason you would prefer not to contact Special Collections staff directly, please write to Grace Hudson, Head of Library Services.

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