REGULATION OF OPERATION OF READING ROOM OF MANUSCRIPTS

The Reading room of Manuscripts
Copy, Shoot and photocopying
Use of equipment of the Manuscripts Reading room

 

 

 

The Reading room of Manuscripts

The reading room of Manuscripts is intended for researchers/readers that active research, that cannot be carried out elsewhere, and concerns pastime with handwritten codes, archival collections, micro tapes of manuscripts, transparencies, special printed books and all that concerns the above categories. Specialized personnel should transport the above material to the Reading room of the Department. The bookshelves in the Reading room contain only published aids with regard to handwritten material and are allocated on demand to the researchers.


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Copy, Shoot and photocopying

There is no general restriction in the copying manuscripts of texts. The Department however does not bring responsibility for any possible violation of the copyright in publication. All the items of manuscript of material do not become acceptable for photocopying, because of the danger of destruction of the prototype. The personnel of Department mass propose an alternative method of copies, when this is feasible, allocates its own photographer that can cope with each type of photographic reproduction. The readers are not allowed to remove micro tapes or photographs. Form-application on reproduction of manuscript of material should be supplemented and delivered to the responsible employee of the Reading room. The forms of application on photographing contain a statement, which the reader should sign, that safeguards the rights of rule copyright, if this exists. Permission of photocopying is given for books that are kept in the Department of Manuscripts, not older than 1920.

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Use of equipment of the Manuscripts Reading room

The acquisitions of the Department of Manuscripts in micro tapes from external collections are available in the Manuscripts Reading room and they can be carried out with the help of special equipment. The orders of reproduction of micro tapes can be completed, under the term that a proper authorization (by the institution to which the primary material belongs) will be gained. The readers can use the equipment of the Manuscripts Reading room, in order to study micro tapes that belong to them.

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