THE BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is open to Yale students and faculty and all other qualified persons. The Library is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 to 4:45 and on Saturday from 8:30 to 12:15. The Library is closed on holidays and Saturdays during college vacations.

Reading privileges are granted to registered readers, subject to the following rules:

1. Readers are required to deposit in the coat room coats, hats, brief cases and all other personal property not essential to their work.

2. Readers are to fill out their own call slips, using an individual slip for each item.

3. Rare books and manuscripts may be consulted only in the Reading Room, and no material may be removed from the building.

4. All material in the Library must be handled with great care. No marks may be added or erased. No tracings or rubbings may be made without specific permission. No books, papers, or other objects (except the weights specially provided for holding books open) may be laid on the material.

5. The use of pens or indelible pencils is not permitted in the Reading Room. Typewriters and microfilm readers are available.

6. All material must be returned to the desk attendant when the reader leaves the building. Material to be used in the immediate future may be reserved at the desk.

7. Readers are not permitted to photo-copy material without special permission, but the Library will make reproductions, subject to its regulations.

8. Smoking is permitted only in the smoking lounge.