If you find yourselves responding to a student or researcher’s enquiry about an archives collection (including photographs, architectural drawings and art works) held in MB, please ensure that they are told that we have a 24 hour turnaround on archival retrievals – before sending them off to see us. Most collections are stored in the warehouse and we cannot retrieve them on demand. There is a process for registering archives users and requesting and retrieving items just as there is for requesting items from any of the storage areas.

Many thanks

Jill