British Columbia,
Provincial Library and
Archives, Victoria

Rules and
regulations governing
tra-velling libraries

RULES AND REGULATIONS

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TRAVELLING LIBRARIES.

VICTORIA, B. C:

Printed by Richard Wolfknues, Printer to the Kintr's
Most Excellent Majesty.
1902.

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RULES GOVERNING TRAVELLING
LIBRARIES.

1. Subject to direction of the Commissioners
of the Library, Travelling Libraries shall be
under the control of the Librarian of the
Library of the Legislative Assembly, to whom
all applications must be made in the manner
hereinafter prescribed.

2. Any rural or mining community, provided
that such community be not part of a duly in-
corporated city, may make application for a
library to be sent to a designated address.

3. An application must be signed by at least
twenty-five persons who must be British sub-
jects of the full age of twenty-one years, and
residents of the community petitioning for a
library.

4. In order that their application may be
entertained, the petitioners must agree to pay
the transportation charges; to provide a suit-
able place for the reception of the library; to
select a suitable person to take charge of the
books and act as librarian (free of charge to the
Government); to become responsible for the
proper care of the books, and to forward the
library to a designated address at the end of
six months.

5. A library shall consist of a locked case,
containing not less than one hundred books,
pamphlets or other publications, same to be
accompanied by a key, a set of rules, and cata-
logues for lending and reference purposes.

6. The publications shall refer to matters
pertaining to agriculture, mining, forestry, and
other natural resources, but may contain as well
a number of selected volumes of a general char-
acter.

7. Applicants for a library must forward the
sum of six dollars (.$6.00) with their petition, to
cover the cost of book-case and crate; but no
community shall be required to pay the cost of
more than one book-case and crate.

8. The library shall be kept at a convenient
place, and be opened for the delivery and re-
turn of books at such times as the librarian in
charge shall direct.

9. Any resident of a community where a
travelling library is stationed shall be entitled
to the loan of books, as long as such person
complies with the rules, having first signed the
following agreement: —

"Being a resident of , over fifteen

years of age, I hereby agree, as a borrower from
the British Columbia Travelling Library, to
promptly return the books within the time
specified, and to pay any fines due by me for
over detention of books, or for injury to or loss
sustained by any book while charged to me."

10. Persons under fifteen years of age shall
be entitled to the same privileges as the fore-
going in case their agreement is endorsed by a
parent or guardian, or by any of the petitioners
for the library, or the trustee.

11. Two volumes may be drawn by each
reader and retained for two weeks.

12. The fine of five cents shall be paid for
each book kept over time, and no books shall
be lent to any one to whom books or an unpaid
fine or fines are charged.

13. Fines shall be paid to the Librarian and
used under the direction of the trustee for
library purposes.

14. A reader desiring a book not at the time
on the shelves may have it reserved for him
for forty-eight hours after its return, by giving
notice to the Librarian,

15. A reader returning a book which is not
reserved may renew it for two weeks.

16. Notes, corrections of the press, or mar-
ginal references of any kind on books belonging
to the Province are unconditionally forbidden,
and all losses or injuries beyond reasonable
wear, from whatever cause, must be adjusted to
the satisfaction of the Librarian by the person
to whom the book is charged.

17. Any person taking any books, maps or
other publications from the library shall be lia-
ble for all damage done thereto while in his or
her possession, which damages shall be assessed
by the Librarian and paid to him or her by the
person taking such book, map or publication;
and the payment of all damages or losses in
respect to books the property of the Province
shall be made a condition precedent to obtain-
ing further loans, and all moneys received by
the Librarian shall be fully accounted for to the
Provincial Librarian.

18. Books must be handled with care and
leaves must not be turned down.

19. The Librarian shall keep an accurate
record of all books lent out, entering the date
of borrowing and return, cards for which pur-
pose will be provided with each Library sent
out.

20. A libraiy may remain for six months in
any community, at the end of which time it
shall be the duty of the Librarian to forward
it, carefully packed, to an address supplied by
the Provincial Librarian.

21. In case of an application being received
by the Provincial Librarian, duly signed by the
Librarian and trustee of the library, requesting
an extension of time not exceeding six months,
the same may be granted.

22. An accurate record shall be kept of the
books lent out and the date of their return,
and a full report of the same shall be for-
warded at the end of every six months to the
Provincial Librarian.

23. A printed catalogue of the books in each
library shall accompany the same.

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