Access and consultation

Access The general rules for access to libraries of the University Library also apply to the Tabularium. With each visit you should write down your name in the visitors' register It is not allowed to take jackets or bags with you. You should leave these in the main entrance. Consultation Before consulting the manuscripts, the readers are asked to use as much as possible the microfilm, photographs or the digitized version for making a transcription or description. They are also asked to check with bibliographic references to see if there are no detailed notes on the manuscript. The manuscripts and precious works should be handled with care, therefore one should take into account the the following guidelines - Be sure of always working with clean hands. - Readers are explicitly asked to use a pencil when taking notes and to put down the pencil if they want to turn pages - Consult the book on a legger. Support the work while opening it, without force. Manipulate old bookbindings with care by slowly opening and closing the work. Never place a book on another open book - Never touch written or illuminated area, even with a ruler. Use a blank A4 paper, folded in two, in order to follow, if necessary, the text line by line. - Do not bring your face too close to the manuscript. Parchment is very sensitive to changes of humidity (sneezing, saliva or even breath). Therefore, it is also recommended not to talk in the vicinity of a manuscript. - Ask the staff to help with the description of watermarks or with the examination of the quires when a manuscript is tightly bound or whose binding is in poor condition - Close the book when you take a leave a break or when you leaves your place. - No copies of manuscripts or precious works can be made. Visitors should ask for permission to the reproduction of manuscripts and precious works in their publications. There may be asked to pay for the reproduction. Visitors are asked to provide a copy or at least a photocopy of the publication in which manuscripts or precious works of the Tabularium are mentioned. Many collections are arranged on open shelves. The truely historical collections are in the closed repository, which is not accessible for the general public, but from which you can request documents, books or archive records. >> Collections (free access): The reader has free access to the reference works (book history, manuscripts, archives), the special collections (university history) and the collections in the study rooms and the open repository. >> Collections in the closed repository (with request slip): The precious works of the University Library and the actual archival records of the University archive are preserved in a closed repository. Whoever wants to consult these can make a request for consultation in the study room Precious Works and Archives of the Tabularium. You can do this using a request slip. No access Of course, we would like to put as much material as possible at your disposal. However, traditionally, certain limitations apply to the archives. Archival data of the last 30 years cannot be consulted. Archives of a personal nature of the last 50 years cannot be consulted either. A few extended files are not accessible because they have not yet been ordered or did not receive any inventory. This regulation is based on the Archival regulations.