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36 CFR 1254.6: Do I need a researcher identification card to use archival materials at a NARA facility?
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 36—Parks, Forests, and Public Property
- CHAPTER XII—NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
- SUBCHAPTER C—PUBLIC AVAILABILITY AND USE
- PART 1254—USING RECORDS AND DONATED HISTORICAL MATERIALS
- Subpart A—General Information
(a) Yes, you need a researcher identification card to use original archival materials at a NARA facility. See §§ 1254.8 and 1254.10 for information on obtaining a card.
(b) You also need a researcher identification card if you wish to use only microfilm copies of documents at NARA's Washington, DC, area facilities and in any NARA facility where the microfilm research room is not separate from the textual research room.
(c) If you are using only microfilm copies of records in some regional archives where the microfilm research room is separate from the textual room, you do not need an identification card but you must register as described in § 1254.22.
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