Document Delivery
E-mail/Fax Service
$2.00 per page
Limit of $40 per document if sourced electronically.
We have extensive contacts with other libraries, commercial document delivery services, and specialized research companies. Our librarians, in consultation with our members, can request material and/or documents outside our own holdings and/or online contracts. With prior agreement, the member will be billed a $20 OCLC fee from NYLI plus any inter-library loan charges, out-of-contract charges, or document retrieval fees charged by the third party. Research charges will be billed when applicable, as specified in the Research services policy.
Photocopy Service
$1.00 per page for pickup
Self Service photocopies/pages
$0.35 per page
*Copyright royalties may be applicable.
Messenger Services Outside New York City
Rush Delivery Messenger Service (within 1 hour)
Borrowing eBooks
Lost Book Replacement Cost
Copyright Policy
Research Services
$100 per hour, billed in 15-minute increments
Research services policy
Our research services fee is applied only to requests that require the research skills of our professional librarians. Examples include compiling legislative histories, locating documents that are not held in our collection, and complex reference queries that result in a specific work product whether the response is in the form of an email or PDF document.
For example, “Is a decision of one of the four New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division courts considered mandatory authority for the other three, or persuasive authority?”
An appropriate work product via email might be “According to William H. Manz, Gibson’s New York Legal Research Guide, at 183-184 (3d ed. 2004), in the section entitled “Overview of Mandatory Authority in New York”: “The decisions of the various judicial departments are persuasive authority as to each other. For example, a Second Department decision is merely persuasive authority for the Third Department.”
In researching a question, we will notify the member when we have spent 30 minutes on their question but have not yet found the answer. We will explain we need to charge research time for more work, billing at $100/hour, and will ask them whether we should continue. If they authorize the work, we will show all the time we spent on the matter and will only bill for the time past the 30 minute mark.
Research services fees will not be applied to requests of a clerical nature, such as photocopying, or retrieving known items from our physical collection, or from the databases we subscribe to.
New Fast Track Service
Document Retrieval/ILL Services
*Copyright royalties may be applicable.
Regular Delivery Messenger Service
To downtown or midtown under 15 lbs: $19.00
To downtown or midtown 15 lbs or over (motor charge): $39.00
To destination in New York City outside Manhattan: $65.00