Regulation 15: Library

Contents

1) Access

2) Borrowing

3) Conduct

4) Data Protection

5) Copyright


1. Access

a) Admission to the Library is open to all. Persons may be refused admission at the discretion of the Librarian.

b) Members of the University are entitled to borrowing rights. Non-members of the University may also become borrowers at the discretion of the Librarian and, if necessary, on payment of an annual fee.

c) Valid cards are required to borrow from the Library. These are not transferable and must be shown to Library staff on request. Failure to produce a valid card may result in that person being asked to withdraw from the Library.

d) The loss of a card must be reported to the Library immediately. Users may be held liable for any items lost because the loss of a card has not been reported

e) The Librarian shall determine the opening hours of the Library. These may vary during the year and will be displayed at the entrance to the Library and on the Library web pages.

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2. Borrowing

a) Items available for loan may be borrowed, within the limits specified for each borrower category, on production of a valid membership card.

b) Fines will be levied for late return of loaned items, according to a published schedule. Borrowers may renew loans, provided that another reader does not want the items in question.

c) Persons who have incurred fines or other library charges may be refused borrowing facilities until such debts have been settled. Such debts constitute a debt to the University.

d) No item may be removed from the Library until its loan has been properly issued at the appropriate Service Desk or Self-Issue machine.

e) Items restricted to use in the Library may not be removed from the Library without the permission of a senior member of the Library staff. Library staff may withhold or restrict the circulation of any item of Library stock.

f) Borrowers are responsible for all items issued using their cards. This responsibility is not transferable and ends only when the item has been recorded as returned on the Library system.

g) After an item on standard loan has been in the possession of a reader for a week, it may be recalled by the Library for use by another reader. The Library may recall an item at any time if it is required for special purposes. Failure to return a recalled item by the required date will result in a fine.

h) All items on loan must be returned before the borrower’s membership expires.

i) All persons entering or leaving the Library must allow Library staff to examine all Library materials in their possession and to see the contents of all cases, bags and other receptacles.

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3. Conduct

a) Deliberate unauthorised removal of Library materials, or defacing or deliberate damaging of Library property will be regarded as an extremely serious offence and may result in disciplinary action in accordance with the appropriate University regulations.

b) Readers will be held responsible for, and will have to make good, any loss or damage to items on loan to them or being used by them in the Library.

c) The reservation of seats in the Library is not permitted.

d) The Library accepts no responsibility for personal belongings brought into the building.

e) All readers must leave the building before closing time.

f) Conversation and any other behaviour likely to disturb or inconvenience other readers must be avoided in the designated quiet and silent areas of the Campus Library and throughout the Health Library.

g) Designated areas for group study are provided in the Campus Library. Conversation is permitted here but should be study related and not disruptive to others.

h) All Library staff may require any person(s) thought to be guilty of disruptive or improper behaviour to withdraw from the Library immediately. Re-admittance will be at the discretion of the Librarian.

i) Mobile phones and other electronic communication devices may only be used in designated areas of the Library and must be switched off in silent and quiet study areas.

j) Smoking is forbidden in all areas of the Library and within 10 metres of any access to the building, except in the designated smoking area.

k) With the exception of bottled water, the consumption of food and drink is forbidden, except in the Refreshment Area of the Campus Library.

l) Any reader found to be in breach if these regulations may be deprived of borrowing facilities for a period specified by the Librarian, who may also take further action in accordance with the University’s disciplinary regulations.

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4. Data Protection

Under the provisions of the Data Protection Act, the University is a Registered Data User. All information which relates to an identifiable individual and is held in machine-readable form by, or on behalf of, the Library, is registered as being held for the purpose of Library administration. Such information, unless it is held for the specific purpose of public access (e.g. in the catalogue of Library stock), is normally private to that individual and may not be divulged by Library staff to any third party.

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5. Copyright

a) The provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and, where appropriate, the copyright licensing agreements which the University has entered into must be observed in all copying of Library material and in all copying carried out on Library premises.

 

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