Reading Room Policies

In order to protect the rare materials housed by the Lear Center, we ask you to observe the following rules:

• All readers will be asked to fill out a registration form. Groups using materials only need to fill out a single form. New readers may be asked to show photo ID. College ID is accepted.
• Only Lear Center staff may page materials. Lear Center stacks are not browsable.
• Food and beverages are not permitted.
• Only pencils may be used once materials have been paged.
• For the comfort of other readers, we ask that you not use cell phones in the reading room.
• Materials may not leave the reading room.
• Book cradles will be provided for fragile materials. For the safety of fragile books we ask that they remain in the cradles.