The card catalogs in the Rare Book Collection Reading Room provide access to thousands of items for which online records have yet to be produced. There are a variety of other finding aids available within the department, including printed catalogs and microcomputer databases for a number of collections and card files providing access to portions of the holdings by date, printer, private press, place of publication, and provenance. The materials of the RBC are used in the Rare Book Collection Reading Room only. Books are generally retrieved within a few minutes after submission of call slips. Books that will be used over a number of days may be held at the desk.
Lockers are available for the storage of personal belongings.
Pencils and scrap paper are available at the Circulation desk. Limited photoduplication may be possible. A Portrait of the Author in Sixteenth-Century France . G. Thomas Tanselle. The History of Books as a Field of Study .