I'm afraid there may be some items that I don't want people to see. We can discuss this at the time of donation. We have implemented a General Restrictions Policy Statement to guard against the release of confidential information. Though these special restrictions on donations are rare, a donor has the right to establish them before the time of donation. We are happy to discuss these with you, and we invite you to examine our General Restrictions Policy Statement.
Actual use depends on subjects and kinds of materials.
Others are restoring houses, looking for deeds and abstracts, old photographs, searching for the history of families who lived here. I'm still a little leery of donating my papers. We can understand. But we want you to consider that the Center of Southwest Studies has possibly the largest and certainly one of the few major research collections on the Four Corners region. We encourage you to visit us before making a commitment.