COVID-19 Protocols and Advice

• Please ring or email us in advance, so that we can discuss:
  • the items you are seeking to deposit/donate
  • whether the items fit our collection
  • making an appointment time.
• Due to the limited number of people that can fit in our reception space at one time, please make an appointment to ensure you don’t have to wait on arrival.
• Make a list of the items in each box.
• Place items into cardboard boxes (no plastic tubs, suitcases or other rigid and non-recyclable containers). The filled box should not be any heavier than 7kg.

• Please report to our front desk and provide your contact details. Bring in the list of items, but don’t bring in the items with you.
• Items will then be brought in through our delivery doors to the quarantine space. They will be quarantined for 48 hours before being moved into storage.
• Ensure that you practise physical distancing.

You will be required to provide your contact details: name and phone number. These details will be kept for 28 days, and may be used for tracing purposes should a COVID-19 case at Lutheran Archives be reported.

• Professional cleaners are thoroughly cleaning our premises daily. Staff are also regularly cleaning high-touch points.
• All visitors will be asked screening questions on entry and need to provide contact details.
• Hand sanitiser will be available and customers will be asked to use this on entry and exit.
• All researchers and visitors will be required to be 1.5 metres from each other.
• Desks and chairs in the research room will be cleaned and sanitised between research blocks.
• Records, books and other archival items that have been handled will be quarantined for 48 hours before being available again.