Appointments for paged material must be booked in advance. For further information, including use guidelines, please see our visit page.
In advance of your visit, we ask that you read through and agree to the WVRHC access policy.
While rules and regulations may be intimidating at first, it’s good to remember that they are in place to preserve the materials not to police you. Archives exist to care for, preserve, and provide access to material, so researchers like you will be able to use them, hopefully forever. So, if these rules are followed, we can better care for the material.
These guidelines from Harvard how to handle special collections material, as well as why we ask you to take extra care while using our material.