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PCA
Historical Center |
| 12330
Conway Road |
| St.
Louis, MO 63141 |
- (314)
469-9077
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- Access
and Use Policy:
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- The materials housed in the PCA Historical Center are normally
available to members of the PCA
and the general public. Certain restrictions do apply to the
use of these materials and patrons are
expected to know and abide by these common courtesies.
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- 1. Restricted Materials:
- Presbytery and Session records are held as restricted materials
and are available only to
authorized members of those bodies. Researchers with written
permission from a Presbytery
or Session will, upon verification, be permitted the use of records
pertinent to their research.
- A relative few collections are either in part or in whole
under a restriction due to sensitive
content. Normally such restrictions have a time limit not greater
than 25 years from the time
they were received into the Center.
- Particularly fragile or rare items may also be restricted
from handling by researchers. In these
cases, the staff of the Historical Center will seek to find ways
to make the content available,
yet without allowing direct contact with the items in question.
- Materials which are still being processed are not available
for use by researchers. The staff
can not make these materials available to the researcher, since
this interrupts the processing
procedure and delays completion of that collection.
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- 2. General Safeguards:
- No materials may be checked out or otherwise removed from
the Historical Center without
specific written permission from the Director.
- The PCA Historical Center operates on a call system. Researchers
are not permitted to
work in the stacks. Call slips are submitted to the staff, who
then retrieve materials for use in
the study area.
- Where copyright laws are not infringed, photocopies may be
made of most documents. The
staff will copy reasonable amounts of material upon request,
with the cost of copying to be
paid by the researcher. The current charge is ten cents per single-sided
page.
- The PCA Historical Center reserves all intellectual property
rights to the materials housed in
its Collection, either as owner or as trustee, depending upon
the records in question.
Photocopies made of documents in the Collection are not to be
duplicated or otherwise
deposited in other locations without express permission in writing
from the Director of the
PCA Historical Center. Likewise, permission to publish significant
portions of any materials
held by the PCA Historical Center must be obtained in writing
from the Director.
- The researcher assumes all responsibility for observing both
copyright and libel laws in the
use of any materials housed at the PCA Historical Center. The
researcher further agrees to
hold harmless the PCA Historical Center, its Director and all
staff in any actions arising out
of the researcher's use of these materials.
- All materials housed at the Center should be considered fragile.
Never place anything on top
of the records that are being examined. Researchers should take
special care not to place
note-taking papers on top of documents.
- Please endeavor to preserve the order of the materials as
they are presented to you. If you
find documents out of order, please bring this to the attention
of the staff.
- Please use pencils only for taking notes and take special
care not to add any marks to the
documents being examined. Pencils will be provided on request.
All ink pens, highlighters and
other markers should be left in your briefcase.
- Researchers are permitted the use of laptop computers, so
long as their use does not prompt
damage to the documents or disturb other patrons.
- No eating, drinking or smoking is permitted in the study
area of the facility.
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- All researchers will be asked to sign a form agreeing to
these conditions before access will be
permitted to the requested materials.