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Library Rules

COLLEGE LIBRARY

Books in the college library are classified into sections and subsections. The staff and the students of the college and other persons specially permitted by the Principal may use the College library. A librarian manages the work of the library under the supervision of a teaching member of the staff. The following are the library rules to be taken notice of.
The following is a list showing the maximum number of books that may be issued to various class of borrowers.

a) Members of the teaching staff - 10

b) Non-teaching staff - 08

c) Honours Students - 02
A book once issued to a borrower may be issued to him/her only when nobody else wants to take the book. Books before being re-issued should be presented to the librarian for necessary entries in the register.
Students should take out books on library card which will be given to them after they are admitted to the college on payment of Rs.0.25 paisa.
The time allowed to a borrower except the members of the teaching staff and those specially permitted by the Principal is two weeks. It is one month in the case of the members of the teaching staff.
Any book lost, damaged « or defaced by a borrower must be replaced by him/her. If the book is one of a set or series and the volume can not be obtained single, the whole set of series must be replaced at the cost of the reader. In case the book be rare or irreplaceable the borrow must pay an amount up to ten times of the catalogue price of the book.
In those cases in which the price of the lost books can not be ascertained he should pay as compensation an amount fixed by the Principal.
If books are lost by the students, they have to replace them by new ones or pay ten times the price of the books.
Candidates sent up for University Examination must return all library books before filling up the application for admission to those examinations.
Books of one department will not be ordinarily issued to the members of the staff of other departments. However no such restriction is laid on books of general interest.
A person who takes books from the library is supposed to have read the library rules and is supposed to have agreed to abide by them. Ignorance of the library rules will not be an excuse for breach of any rules.
Students are specially requested to produce their Identity Cards in all dealings with the library.
A borrower can’t borrow more than one copy of the same book.
The Principal may impose a fine on a student for improper use of book or journal.
Reference books will be issued on call slips for consolation in the library.
It is a very serious offence for one borrows to sign for another _ and borrow books in another’s name.
No personal belongings are allowed inside the library.