HOURS
Research is by appointment only.  Seating is limited. The hours of research are Monday-Friday, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm. The Division is closed from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm weekdays, and all day Saturday, Sunday, and Federal Holidays. For assistance, call (202) 806-7480. 

RESEARCH REGULATIONS

1. Researchers are required to complete a Research Register and to present suitable identification, e.g. driver’s license or other photo identification.
2. Researchers requesting manuscript services must have complete research in the available secondary sources.  Browsing of the collection is not permitted. 
3. Briefcases, portfolios, packages, coats, and similar items are not permitted in the research room.  Upon examination, researchers may be permitted to take notes and books essential to their research into the research room.
4. Researchers must fill out request slips for materials they wish to examine.  Material will be available in single units (box, folder, item) as circumstances dictate. 
5. Researchers must exercise the greatest possible care in using materials.  Materials must not be leaned on; written on; folded anew; traced; fastened with rubber bands, stables or pencil clips; or handled in any way subjecting them to damage.  Eating, drinking, and smoking are prohibited in the research room.  Use pencil only.  Under no circumstances may ink be used. 
6. Researchers must preserve the arrangement of unbound materials and report any disarrangement to the archivist.  Do not rearrange materials yourself.  All materials must be returned to the archivist if the researcher leaves the room for any period. 

PERMISSION TO PUBLISH

Researchers must assume the responsibility of securing permission to publish materials.  Permission to examine materials is not an authorization to publish them.  To the extent that it may properly do so, this repository will ordinarily grant the usual publication rights to qualified applicants.  In giving permission to publish materials, Howard University does not surrender its own right to publish the materials or to grant permission to others to publish it.  A dissertation is considered a published work. 

CITING MATERIALS

Researchers must indicate the full bibliographic information when citing materials used.  Example: Alain Locke Papers Box 1-1 Folder 45; Manuscript Division, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University.

PHOTODUPLICATION REQUEST

The Research Center will entertain request for the photoduplication of modest amounts of manuscript materials for individual scholars engaged in specific research.  However, all photocopying is governed by copyright and other restrictions placed on photoduplication.  Photocopying of materials is similarly restricted.  Photoduplicated copies are for research used by the individual researcher.  These copies are not to be duplicated, disseminated, nor deposited in any other institution.

PHOTOGRAPHIC COPIES

Requests for photograph copies require a processing time of a minimum of ten working days from the day the order is placed in the lab.  This time may be longer depending on the number of requests already on order.  Materials are released for one time only.  Future use must be renegotiated with the Center.