There is no restriction on access to the Amherst College Library Records for research use. Particularly fragile items are restricted for preservation purposes.

Requests for permission to publish material from the Papers should be directed to the Archives and Special Collections. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

[Identification of item], in Amherst College Library Records, 1833-1977 [Box #, folder #]. Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library.

As part of the College Archives ongoing efforts to arrange and describe all holdings, the scattered Library Records were centralized during September, 1992. There was little documentation indicating how the materials came into the Archives and little evidence of their original order. As part of processing, records that were created for a similar function were identified and organized together (e.g. serials, bibliographic instruction, classification, etc.). Within each series, suitable arrangement was imposed.

As a part of this project, Library records concerning library operations to 1970 were organized and described. Library records documenting library administration after 1939 were not processed at this time.