Please note: Permission to examine unpublished or archival material in the
Museumís collections does not imply permission to publish this information.
Handle collection material carefully and report any damage immediately to
the Library staff
Not remove or alter labels or other identifying markings
Accept the decision of the Library staff as to whether or not something can
be photocopied
If visitors wish to take their own photographs of collection material for
purposes of individual research, permission must be granted by the Museum
Librarian, who will also approve the conditions under which the photography is
done.
If these personal photographs are to be used in a published work,
permission to use them must be requested in writing from the Museum Librarian.
The Curator may require that a photograph done by the Museumís staff
photographer or another Museum-approved photographer be substituted and a
publications use fee be paid to the Museum. This fee will be in addition to
that charged for the creation of the photograph. Regardless of who creates the
photograph, the credit line will read: Courtesy, Carnegie Museum of Natural
History.
It is the responsibility of the user to determine the copyright status of
unpublished or published, text, image or electronic data found in the Museumís
collection or held in departmental archival collections, as it cannot be
assumed that the Museum has clear title to that material.
If such unpublished archival material, such as correspondence or field
notes is quoted or referred to in a publication, the credit line to be used is
"From the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History."
The specific collection should be identified.