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Who can use the Library?
Anyone can use the Library when open. However, children under fourteen must be accompanied by an adult. To find out more information about the Library, including opening times, please visit our About the Library page.
Food & Drink
To protect our collection, consumption of food and drink is not allowed in the Library.
Caring for Books
To help preserve our collection for future generations, we ask visitors to observe the following guidelines when using the Library:
• hands to be clean, dry and free from grease
• ensure you have sufficient space in which to work comfortably
• books should not be used to rest on
• open books should not be placed face down or be stacked on top of one another
• use acid free strips of paper for marking pages (provided by Library staff)
• use weighted snakes for holding down pages (provided by Library staff)
Photocopying
There are photocopying facilities available at the Library and staff will be happy to assist. If items you wish to copy are within copyright, we will ask you to fill in a Copyright Declaration form. Click here to download a Copyright Declaration Form.
Photocopying charges:
A4: 10p each
A3: 20p each
Digital Images
We can also provide digital or scanned images of hard-copy material (e.g., articles in the journal Coal News or relevant page in an Accident Report) and email them to you. Again, a completed Copyright Declaration form is required before items can be sent. Click here to download a Copyright Declaration Form. DIY Digital Images
We are happy for you to bring your camera into the Library and take digital images of pages in books or journals. Copyright legislation still applies and an agreement regarding photography by visitors on site will be provided.
Anyone can use the Library when open. However, children under fourteen must be accompanied by an adult. To find out more information about the Library, including opening times, please visit our About the Library page.
Food & Drink
To protect our collection, consumption of food and drink is not allowed in the Library.
Caring for Books
To help preserve our collection for future generations, we ask visitors to observe the following guidelines when using the Library:
• hands to be clean, dry and free from grease
• ensure you have sufficient space in which to work comfortably
• books should not be used to rest on
• open books should not be placed face down or be stacked on top of one another
• use acid free strips of paper for marking pages (provided by Library staff)
• use weighted snakes for holding down pages (provided by Library staff)
Photocopying
There are photocopying facilities available at the Library and staff will be happy to assist. If items you wish to copy are within copyright, we will ask you to fill in a Copyright Declaration form. Click here to download a Copyright Declaration Form.
Photocopying charges:
A4: 10p each
A3: 20p each
Digital Images
We can also provide digital or scanned images of hard-copy material (e.g., articles in the journal Coal News or relevant page in an Accident Report) and email them to you. Again, a completed Copyright Declaration form is required before items can be sent. Click here to download a Copyright Declaration Form. DIY Digital Images
We are happy for you to bring your camera into the Library and take digital images of pages in books or journals. Copyright legislation still applies and an agreement regarding photography by visitors on site will be provided.