Document Services Fees
| Library Documents Sent by Email or Mail | Documents sent by email: $1.00 per page Documents mailed: $1.25 per page (plus postage) |
| Specialized Vendor Database Documents | Documents sent by email: $10 per document Documents sent by mail: $10 per document plus $0.50 per page (plus postage) |
| Fee To Retrieve Documents from Offsite Storage | $175.00 per box |
Rates effective as of April 8, 2024.
By requesting a copy of an article or other document, the requestor understands and is advising us that the copy is for personal use, research, or study, consistent with fair use under U.S. copyright law.
Research Services Fees
| Non-Member Research Rate | $275 per hour (minimum fee of $275), plus applicable document fees. The minimum fee of $275 must be paid before work will begin. |
| Member Research Rate | $150 per hour (minimum fee of $50), plus applicable document fees. |
Non-member Research:
Non-member research is charged at an hourly rate of $275. A minimum fee of $275 must be paid before the requested research or document services will be started.
If the work exceeds one hour, non-members will be charged for the additional time in ten-minute increments. Document delivery charges are in addition to applicable hourly rates.
All fees after the initial $275 must be paid when invoiced, and the requested information will not be provided until payment is made.
Member Research:
Member’s research is charged at a reduced hourly rate of $150. The minimum fee of $50 does not need to be pre-paid. If the work exceeds 20 minutes, members will be charged for the additional time in ten-minute increments. Document delivery charges are in addition to applicable hourly rates. Invoices are due upon receipt, but need not be paid before the Library will release the results of the research or the requested documents.
How To Make Payment
We prefer that invoices be paid by check, due to online processing fees. If you are unable to send a check, you may pay with a credit or debit card by clicking here
Policy Regarding Research Requests by Individual Members
An individual membership is intended for someone in a solo business, law, or other professional practice, or a self-employed individual researcher, and provides the individual member all the benefits of membership, including research services at the discounted member rate.
An individual membership means that the Library will accept research requests only from the individual member–not a member’s assistant, co-worker, spouse, or other person–for matters on which the individual member is working directly.
An individual membership is not intended to permit an employee of a company, firm, or other group to submit research requests on behalf of another employee of the same company, firm or group. If we receive a business-related request from a non-member and then receive a substantially identical request from an individual member at the same organization, it will be considered an abuse of membership and the request will not be honored at either our member or non-member research rates.
