Onsite visits

Personal belongings such as bags and coats must be placed in the lockers near the staff desk in the reading room.​

Food, drinks, and pens are not allowed in the reading room.

A self-service scanner with an e-mail feature is available for use, and cameras are allowed for research purposes. Pencils and paper are provided, and electrical outlets are available for laptop computers and other portable devices.

Ink pens, indelible pencils, correction fluid, and personal scanning devices are not allowed in the reading room. Please ask about policies and request help with the scanner at the reference desk.

Researchers are encouraged to bring their own search devices (phone, laptop, tablet).

Visitor computers are available, but users without netids will need to provide their government ID and be entered into a log in order to use the public computers. University affiliates with netids will be asked to log on to these computers with their netid.

Guest wireless/wi-fi accounts are available for five days or fewer. The campus also offers eduroam for affiliates of other universities or colleges.

Researchers 15 or younger must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Researchers ages 16 and 17 may use the department independently with written approval or prior arrangement from a parent or guardian. The parent or guardian will need to complete the researcher registration on behalf of the researcher in this age category.

Absolutely! Contact specoll@unr.edu and we’ll see what we can do.

No, that’s something that University Events handles with Parking and Transportation.

Professional research in recent years has shown that the use of cotton gloves is actually more harmful than helpful when it comes to paper and books. They make it harder to feel what you’re doing, such as turning pages or handling deteriorating leather bindings, which can lead to inadvertent damage. We ask for clean, dry hands instead.

If you are coming for a multi-day visit or wish to see a large number of items, we always appreciate receiving a list in advance, but it is not mandatory.​ 

Advanced notice of five business days is required for accessing digital materials that are not already available in the digital collections platform. We will do our best to accommodate your request but there may be preservation issues that impede our ability to provide access at the time of your request. 

Please see the FAQs and important access notes on our research page for information on restricted materials that may need additional steps before access can be provided.

We have a media playback room where you may access audiovisual materials. However, we can only enable playback of access copies in order to preserve the originals. If no access copy exists for a given item, you can contact us about getting the original digitized. There may be a cost associated with the request.

The University Libraries are committed to accessibility. We’re happy to assist you in accessing our collections. Assistance may involve helping you make scans at the reading room scanner, providing magnifiers or camera stands, opening or moving archival boxes, or other reasonable accommodations. Please contact us to let us know how we can help you.