LIBRARY RULES

St. Joseph Seminary

Seniors’ Library

1. The St. Joseph Seminary library serves all bona fide students and
faculty members of the seminary community. It is a place for
reading and study. To allow for such an activity, it should be a
place where there is silence, quiet and order.
2. There should be no eating, drinking, littering, shouting,
grouping, and any other boisterous behavior in the library.
3. The librarians and the library aides are empowered to enforce
quiet and silence in the library.
4. A seminarian is entitled to borrow two books at a time. They
should be returned within the specified period recorded in the
borrower’s card.
5. For the purposes of assigned and required book reports,
seminarians may borrow the books for a longer duration of time.
6. Reference books like encyclopedia, atlas, yearbooks and
periodicals are not to be taken out of the library.
7. Tearing, damaging or destroying books, magazines, pamphlets
and periodicals are serious offense against the rules of caring for
seminary property.
8. Books being borrowed and being returned should be checked
and examined before being released and before being accepted.
9. A seminarian who does not return a book within the specified
due date is given penalty or charged with a fine.
10. Lost or damaged books and other library materials should be
replaced or paid for.
11. Those who wantonly violate the library rules and regulations
shall be suspended from using the library privileges.