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Archives and Special Collections

Planning Your Visit

Patrons in the CSU reading room

  • Planning to Visit: Appointments

    Although not required, appointments are encouraged. To better serve patrons, we encourage appointments of at least 24 hours notice. This allows materials to be assembled and collections to be retrieved from remote locations prior to your visit.

  • Getting Here: Maps, Directions, and Parking

    Archives and Special Collections is located on the 2nd floor of Morgan Library, in the south east corner. Click here for maps, driving directions, and parking information.

    Parking on campus is available for a fee. Daily permits are available for $4.00 at the Visitor Center (1301 S. College, corner of College and Pitkin), at the CSU ID Office in the Lory Student Center, and at Parking Services (201 Green Hall, corner of Laurel and Loomis). Daily permit dispenser machines are located in the Moby Lot, the Art Lot, the University Square Lot, and the east Veterinary Teaching Hospital Lot. Some lots have meters.

  • During Your Visit: Rules and Policies

    • Materials housed in Archives & Special Collections are non-circulating and must be viewed in Room 202 of Morgan Library.
    • Food and drink are not allowed in the Archives and Special Collections Department.
    • Please use only a soft pencil for taking notes. Use no ink, make no marks on materials, and do not use sticky notes on materials. Use of laptop computers is permitted.
    • Following staff instruction, exercise the greatest care to prevent possible damage to materials and use extreme care in handling fragile items, using all conservation tools provided.
    • Please conserve the existing order and arrangement of unbound materials and report any disarrangement or missing items to staff member. If leaving for a period of time, return all materials to staff member.
    • Photocopying of some materials is allowed. All copying is performed by Archives staff members.
    • Some collections may have use restrictions. If there are any questions concerning this, please consult the staff.
    • Proper copyright compliance is the patron’s responsibility. CSU copyright policies and Library of Congress copyright laws apply to the use of Archives and Special Collections materials.
    • Do not use any material in the Archives and Special Collections Department of Colorado State University’s Morgan Library in violation of any common law or statutory rights against libel or slander. Users must agree to indemnify and hold Colorado State University harmless for any such improper use.
    • In the event that any material from the collection is used in a paper, publication or project a citation is needed. For profit use of images requires permission and licensing agreements through the department.

  • Photocopying and Digitization

    Researchers can request up to 10 photocopies (20 for students) of materials free of charge. A per page fee is charged for larger quantities. This is payable by personal check or exact change. We do not accept credit and debit cards. Staff will review materials to judge whether they are too fragile or have other issues which would prevent them from being photocopied.

    If a request exceeds the number of free copies, a charge will be incurred for all copies. Requests of over 400 copies require the approval of the archivist. However, there will be no price break on these requests.

    Photocopy Fee Schedule

    Number of Copies Per Day Charge
    1-20 Free for students
    1-10 Free for researchers
    21-100 $.25 per page
    101-200 $.50 per page
    201-400 $1.00 per page

    Digitization Fee Schedule

    Researchers can request digital scans of materials for a fee. Staff will review the materials to determine if they are stable enough to be scanned.

    Not-for-profit research use is $25.00 per scanned image. Researchers asking for scans of images for research use will need to re-apply later for a licensing agreement if the scans are to be used in a for-profit capacity (i.e. publishing). Please note that these fees are waived for requests from CSU administrative, departmental, and college offices.

    Researchers requesting images for commercial-use publication, exhibition, broadcasting, or internet display of image derivatives from Colorado State University’s Archives and Special Collections need to contact the Coordinator of Archives and Special Collections to discuss licensing agreements and permission to publish. Please be aware that permission is for one-time-only use. Fees are $50 per image (including cost of scanning).