Services

Circulation of Library Materials is restricted to APA staff.

• A 24 hour advance notice is required to visit the Archives and Classic Books Collection.
• APA staff can borrow books for a period of 30 days; reference titles can be borrowed for 24 hours only.
• Journals, archival materials and classic books are available only in the reading area.
• Journal articles can be copied or printed from E-resources.
• Renewals are possible only for books from the circulating collection that have not have a hold placed on them.

Document Delivery—The Archives and Library provide photocopies of Archival materials, APA Journal Articles and book chapters that are not among the full-text collections in PsycArticles, PsycBOOKS and PsycEXTRA. Please check availability through one of the APA Electronic Products at www.apa.org/databases prior to contacting Library staff. The library has a small collection of other journals and books in psychology. The turnaround time for such requests is 24 hours.

Interlibrary Loan—APA Archives and Library participates in Interlibrary Loan. Restrictions are applied to lending archival materials and publications covered by APA full text electronic products. Turn around time for processing ILL requests is 24 hours.

Reference and Instruction Services are mainly for the staff of APA headquarters in Washington, DC. APA Members and Division officers are welcome with any questions about APA history and the APA Archives.

Permission to reproduce materials owned by APA archives should be referred to the APA archives staff.

Visitors may access the Library and Archival collections free of charge. For visitors who are non-APA members, a fee of $0.25 per page will be charged for use of the library's copier and printer.