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Reprographic Orders

Requests to photocopy, photograph, and microfilm material still under copyright will not be carried out until the Curator of the Berg Collection has received from the copyright holder or estate executor a signed permission statement.

This statement may be sent by post and fax, or by e-mail, if it has been sent directly from or forwarded from the copyright holder’s or estate executor’s e-mail address (i.e., it may not be a “copy-and-paste” message).

Photocopies: Berg staff executes photocopy orders as their schedules and other duties permit, but you should receive your photocopies within seven business days of our receipt of your request. Bound material may not be photocopied. Unbound printed and manuscript may be photocopied, if permission is granted by the Curator.

Fees: $10.00 for first 10 pages, including postage, and 50 cents for each subsequent page.

Finding Aids: $10.00, plus postage.

Domestic postage: $3.00 for 11-50 pages.

Foreign postage: $5.00 for 11-50 pages.

No more than 50 pages and no more than 20% of a manuscript (novel, short-story, journal, diary, notebook, etc.) may be photocopied, though one-page poems and pieces of correspondence may be photocopied in their entirety. Each photocopied page will bear a stamp stating: “BERG COLL. Photostat made from material in the possession of the New York Public Library. Not to be reproduced without permission. To be returned to the New York Public Library [i.e., to the Berg Collection].” In requesting a photocopy, you obligate yourself to abide by these terms.

Photographs: All photograph orders must be initiated with the Library’s Photographic Services & Permissions Office. Contact it via the Library’s home page (www.nypl.org/): click on the Photographic Services & Permissions link. This will bring you to their site, where you will find their order form, procedures, and price list.

Digital Photographs and Scanners: If permitted by the Curator, researchers may use a digital camera, without a tripod, in the Berg Collection. If the material to be photographed is under copyright, the same procedures must be followed as in the case of photocopies. The researcher must also sign a form stating that the digital image will be used only for research purposes—not for publication—and that it will be deleted, and any hard copies that have been made from it destroyed, upon the project’s completion.

The use of hand-held and flat-bed scanners is prohibited.