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Using the Archive

The Archives serve as a historical record of Rowan-Cabarrus Community College and are open to any student, faculty, staff, or community member for research purposes.

The collections are located on shelves in the Archive Services room in the North (Salisbury) Campus Library. These items are housed in boxes organized into collections. Each box is assigned to a collection and is numbered in order within that collection. When requesting to view a box, please provide the collection and box number found in the collection finding aid. For example, if you are looking for box 3 of the Historical Photographs Collection, you would request to view AS001 Box 3.

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Access Guidelines

• All archival materials are for library use only.
• Users may only access materials by requesting to visit a minimum of 48 hours in advance.  A maximum of five items (folders or specific items) may be requested at a time. Upon arrival, the user will be seated at a table by the circulation desk.
• Items will be signed out to the user for library use only.
• All personal belongings, purses, backpacks, and any food or drink items must be placed on the floor while archival materials are in use.
• Only personal paper and pencil (absolutely no pens, markers, etc.) for the purpose of writing notes may be present on the table while archival materials are in use.
• Only one folder or item may be accessed at a time.
• Researchers are responsible for the safeguarding of materials while in use. Absolutely no augmentation to materials is allowed, including writing on, folding, defacing, cutting, and any other action that changes the condition of the material.
• Researchers will be supervised by library staff while using archival materials. If copying or scanning of any archival materials is desired, library staff will assist the user.
• The user is responsible for all copying costs.
• When the user has completed their use of the materials, they must be turned in to the circulation desk where staff will check off that the items have been returned in full and in the same condition.
• No interlibrary loan of any archival materials is permitted.

Faculty, staff, and the advisor or president of student groups may be approved to take materials out of the library on a case-by-case basis. Requests to take out items must be submitted in writing with full documentation justifying the need to take items off the premises at a minimum of 72 hours in advance so permission may be obtained and materials prepared for check-out. The maximum period of check-out is 7 days.