Now you can from microfilm!  Researchers using microfilm at the Delaney Southwest Research Library: now you may save digitally scanned images from microfilm for use electronically.  Copy straight from the roll of microfilm on the reader to your computer file!  The thumbnail image on the right is a Fourth of July illustration from The Creede Candle (Creede, Colo.), July 1, 1892.  Click on the image for a larger view.  Fair use provisions apply.  You, the researcher, can only create these images for personal use.

Procedures for research at the Center of Southwest Studies:

Getting started using the special collections at the Robert Delaney Southwest Research Library

Searching all of the web pages of the Center of Southwest Studies

Requests for reference assistance via the Internet/ World Wide Web

Requests for copies of materials held at the Center of Southwest Studies

Resources for genealogical research at the Center of Southwest Studies

SW-1 User Registration Form -- completed by each user prior to that user's first request for materials in the Center's Special Collections/Archives.

SW-2 General Restriction Access Policy -- guidelines to the access restrictions that apply to some of the materials at the Center of Southwest Studies.

 SW-4 Image Duplication Request Form -- completed before any of the Center's collection items are copied.  See also SW-18, SW-38, and SW-59.

SW-16 Request for Special Collections Materials -- completed each time a user asks to see any materials from the Center's Special Collections and Archives; for on-site use of materials in the research area. Use SW-20 for checkout of videos.

SW-18 Photoduplication Request Form -- completed before any of the Center's materials are photoduplicated. See also SW-4 and SW-59.

SW-23 Special Collections Special Handling Guidelines -- sixteen guidelines for the preservation of materials being used at the Center.

SW-27  Reproduction Permission Forms - Form SW-27A is completed by persons or organizations who are giving the Center permission to reproduce their materials for reference use at the Center.  Form SW-27B is completed by any persons or organizations who are asking permission to reproduce materials that are in the Center's holdings (for example, permission to photograph an artifact the Center has loaned for exhibit, so that the lender may use that photograph in the exhibit catalog).

 SW-59 Image Digitization Request Form -- completed before any of the Center's images are electronically copied.   See also SW-4 and SW-18.

Policies for research at the Center of Southwest Studies:

SW-3 Special Collections Policy Statement

SW-2 General Restriction Policy Statement -- general and specific restrictions.

SW-44 Exhibit Policy Statement

SW-55 Microfilm Use Policy -- policy for use of the Center's microfilm holdings.

SW-56 Photographic Equipment Use Policy -- policy for use of the Center's cameras and other photographic equipment.

SW-64 Videotape Use Policy -- policy for use of the Center's videotape holdings.

Links to useful tools for doing research in primary sources and understanding older documents today:

• Guides to special collections at the Center of Southwest Studies
• How to search all of the web pages of the Center of Southwest Studies
• Links to other archival repositories in the Four Corners states
• Useful sites re: archives and museums
• Research requests feedback form
• Current and previous issues of Archival E-News:  Fall 2006  ~  Winter 2007

Guides for how to use primary source materials--

• Using Manuscripts and Archives: A Tutorial  (produced by Yale University).
• Using Archives: A Practical Guide for Researchers (produced by the National Archives of Canada).
• Introduction to the principles of archival organization and description (funded by the Getty Information Institute).
• Learning Page  (produced by the Library of Congress American Memory project).
• Consider the Source: Historical Records in the Classroom (publication of the New York State Archives and Records Administration, New York State Education Department).

Charts for using and understanding older documents--

• Copyright and fair use:  Cornell University training site -- includes links to two copyright charts by Peter Hirtle and  Lolly Gasaway, showing when works pass into the public domain.  See also Kenneth Crews' Copyright Management Center.
• Online dictionary and thesaurus:  yourDictionary.com is a comprehensive portal for language and language-related products and services on the web--more than 1800 dictionaries and more than 250 languages).
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System.
• Perpetual calendars.  What day of the week was March 13, 1914?  Three different versions.
• History timelines (by The Media History Project; with links to other online timelines).
• FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service (produced by the Genealogical Society of Utah).
• Consumer price index averages, 1913-nearly current.  To see what that would cost today!
• The "dMarie Time Capsule™":  an "historical database of facts from the past ... Includes data for 1900 through about 1995."
• Fort Lewis and Durango (Colo.): historical events chronology.
• Guidelines for estimated the publication date of a U.S. postcard.

Bibliographies of useful primary source materials--

• Surface mining (edited by Michael S. Hamilton and Dale Barrett, University of Southern Maine, 1999)
• Southwest Colorado wildflowers, ferns and trees (educational/reference web site describing 450 of the more common plants found within a 150 mile radius of the Four Corners; compiled by Al Schneider of Lewis, Colorado)

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Page revised: August 28, 2007