Using the Library Because many of these materials are fragile and irreplaceable, we have established policies and procedures to ensure that these collections will be available for scholarly research for future generations. For information on obtaining color prints, black and white prints, slides, transparencies, or negatives of materials in the American Antiquarian Society collection, please consult our photoduplications page. The library is open, free of charge, to experienced researchers who are working on projects that require use of the collections. As part of their orientation to the library, all new readers meet with a senior staff member to discuss their research interests and to review reading room policies. The Society is located at the corner of Salisbury Street and Park Avenue, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Directions are available.
The library is not open on evenings or weekends. During 2001 and 2002, the American Antiquarian Society will be constructing a major collections-storage addition to the library. Information about the interruptions this construction project might impose will be posted as it becomes available. Facilities Coat racks and lockers are provided near the main entrance for outerwear, personal books, bags, and parcels. No briefcases or purses may be brought into the reading room.