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Special Collections Reading Room
Rules for visitors
The Special Collections Reading Room is used to study manuscripts,
printed material up to 1865, maps, pictures, uncatalogued material and
other rare, precious, fragile or material difficult to handle. The
Special Collections Reading Room has a higher security level with
supervision and special rules.
The Special Collections Reading
Room is a silent reading room, except on Wednesdays when conversation in
a low voice is permitted.
- All new readers must complete the form “Application for Admission to the Special Collections Reading Room”. Identification, for foreign citizens passport, and library card must be shown. The application form and a copy of the identification document are kept at the reading room desk. The librarian in charge may retain the passport and the identification documents during the visit.
- All readers must enter name and address in the visitors’ book on each visit.
- Coats or bags cannot be taken into the reading room; lockers are provided .
- Mobile phones, private books, note books, fountain or ballpoint pens, scissors (and other tools) must be left in the lockers. Pencils and paper are provided by the library staff.
- No food or drink is permitted.
- The librarian directs the visitor to an assigned desk.
- You are allowed to bring a maximum of 5 volumes at the same time to your desk. If many documents are bound in one volume or if many documents are kept in a filing box, you are allowed to bring one volume/one filing box at a time.
- The order in boxes must not be disturbed.
- Copying and photographing is carried out by the staff.
- Do not lean on books or place anything on top of an open book.
- Materials cannot be taken out of the Special Collections Reading Room without permission.
- Materials from the UB collections kept in the Special Collections Reading Room storage on a patron´s account, can be temporarily lent to another patron.
- Contact the librarian before taking a break. The librarian in charge decides whether the material must be returned or not.
- Regarding all else the directions given by the librarian in charge applies.
Last modified 14 Aug 2007
Lund University, Box 117, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden. Tel: +46 (0)46 222 00 00