Rules and Regulations

Rules and Regulations

1. Readers shall enter the library through the entrance passage with your“Campus Card of Yangtze University”. It is temporarily closed to non-library readers.

2. It is forbidden to bringinflammables, explosion-prone objects to the library. Smoking, using high-power electrical appliances and other behaviors that may cause fire are strictly prohibited in the library.

3. Uncivilized behaviors such as eating, bringing pets, spitting or littering waste, speaking loudly or making calls, wearing vests or slippers, lying down in the public area of the library are prohibited.

4. It is forbidden to occupy seats with personal belongings. Please take your personal belongings when leaving the library. The library staff will clean seat occupying your belongings at any time.

5. Please abide by all the regulations of the library, and cooperate with the library staff consciously.

6. Readers shall obey social ethics and take care of the public property. Do not stain, paint, engrave and cut the tables, chairs, doors and windows of the library. The damage to public property should be compensated according to the price.

7. Please take good care of your personal belongings, and take your valuables with you when leaving the reading seat.

8. The staff will conduct education and punishment for those who have uncivilized behaviors or affect other readers’ borrowing and studying.

Library Entrance Rules During the Epidemic and Control Period

1. Please queue up to enter the library and keep a safe distance. When your body temperature is normal at the entrance, you can enter the library with your “Campus Card of Yangtze University”.

2. All readers should wear face masks at all times when entering the library.

3. All readers are required to follow the instruction and arrangement of the library staff, do not gather, consciously maintain a safe distance of more than one meter between each other.

4. If you need to sit for reading or studying after entering the library, please sit according to the seats arranged by the library and do not move the desks and chairs by yourself.

5. In case of fever, cough and other abnormal symptoms, please adhere to the COVID-19 Prevention and Control Plan for the Fall Semester 2020 of Yangtze University, report and dispose in time.

Reading Rooms Regulations

1. The reading room provides readers with a reading service in the library. Please put the book in its original place, on the reading table or in the trolley after reading.

2. Periodicals and newspapers are not for circulation and shall be read only in the library.

3. Books and periodicals, as well as facilities and equipment shall be taken good care of when reading. It is forbidden to smear，mark or clip the books and periodicals. Those who intentionally deface or steal books and periodicals shall be punished in accordance with relevant regulations.

4. Readers shall consciously abide by all the regulations of the library and cooperate with the management of the library staff.

Book Compensation Regulations

1. Readers who underline, mark, annotate or deface the borrowed book heavily should return the original book and 50% of the full price will be fined. If the book is seriously defaced or torn, it shall be returned to the library and the full price of the book will be compensated.

2. Loss of borrowed books shall be compensated with new books of the same or newer version or be compensated by 1-3 times of the original price. When one of a multi-volume book is lost, the compensation is the full price of the book. Lost or damaged interlibrary borrowed books shall be handled in accordance with the regulations of the other library.

3. The Document Lending Department is responsible for the handling of book compensation.