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Membership
Members is provided to:
• Faculty (including visiting)
• Students
• Administrative Staff/University employees
• Paid Member
• Members of Board of Governors
University ID card will be used as library membership
card and is needed for borrowing material and entry.
Members are fully responsible for all material on loan.
Change of contact information (address and telephone
number) must
be reported to the librarian immediately. Membership
is non-transferable.
Loan Privilege for Books
Following categories of members shall observe the loan
schedule mentioned against each:
Teaching faculty members --------------------------8 books
for 30 days
All others-------------------------------------------4
books for 14 days
Loan privilege for Serials & Newspapers
Teaching faculty members -------------------------- 3 for
7 days
All others-------------------------- -----------------2
for 3 days
Terms of Loan
Information material of the following nature shall not
be issued but consulted in the library:
- Works marked REFERENCE/RESERVED such as
encyclopaedias,
dictionaries, atlases, etc.
- Current issues of periodicals and newspapers
- Unprocessed/under process material
- Theses, student's project/ research reports, pamphlets
- Non-printed material other than received as allied
material
- Works other than mentioned above may be issued on
recommendation of Dean/Chair Department in temporarily loan
category (i.e. for 2/3 hours)
Renewal
- Loan may be got renewed for further thirty/fourteen
days provided no other user has reserved it.
- Overdue material will not be reissued.
- If borrowed material is urgently required in the library,
it may be called back.
- Librarian may withhold/ restrict circulation of any
material.
- Books currently cannot be reissued on telephone/ by
email.
Fines
Overdue Fines
- Books and other information borrowed from AUCL must
be returned within the due date mentioned on due date
slip.
- Items not returned within due date will be fined as
follow:
Regular loan: Rs10 per day
Temporary loan: Rs 20 per day (infringement will lead
to stoppage in future of such loans)
If a fine exceeds Rs 3000 membership may be curtailed
until the payment of the fine. The Vice Chancellor has
the discretion to waive off any portion of the fine.
Loss of Books
- If borrowed material is damaged or destroyed, the borrower
will be asked to deposit a replacement or fine which
may be up to three times of the actual cost of the material.
- In case an item or book which is a part of the set
lost or damaged, the borrower will make the payment
of the whole set.
- Any borrowed material not returned within 30 days
of the due date will be considered lost.
General
- Volume of conversation must be kept very low inside
the library.
- Personal belongings are to be left at the library
entrance.
- Members may be asked to submit any possession for
inspection.
- In case any personal reading material has to be taken
inside the library, permission must be obtained from
library staff.
- All reading material issued to members shall be shown
to the attendant at the exit.
- Use of mobile phones and music system in not permitted.
- Damaging material in any way is strictly prohibited,
and will be fined.
- Eating, sleeping and smoking is prohibited.
- Members shall make their own arrangements for carrying
books, etc., to and from the library.
- The librarian is authorized to withdraw library facilities
from any member who is found misusing the library resources
or facilities.
- The library shall not receive any telephone call or
mail message on behalf of any member.
- Students shall not be allowed to use library telephone.
- Members are responsible for timely return of borrowed
material to the library.
- Library material already checked out by some other
member can be reserved. On receiving the material library
will inform the requester for collecting it. If not collected
within two days, reservation will be cancelled.
- Reference material may be photocopied, where copyright
rules permit, on payment.
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