When is the best time to schedule an initial visit?
Your initial visit should occur during business hours (Monday through Friday, 8:45 a.m.–5 p.m.) when archives specialists and archivists are available to help you begin research. Plan on arriving as early as possible on the first day of your research visit. An afternoon arrival after 3 p.m. will not allow enough time for records to be identified and retrieved from the stack area for your examination that day. We store our records in closed stack areas, so you will need to order records through one of our research consultants. However, you may use the copies of records housed in our microfilm and video research rooms at any time during our hours of operation without making prior arrangements.
