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Rules of compensation for book loss or defilement 

Readers must take good care of books and periodicals you have borrowed in the library. You will compensate for them if you lose or damage them.

Loss compensation

In case you have lost a book or a periodical you borrowed, you will will be required to try and purchase the same book or periodical (the same edition, the same volume date) that you have lost and after that you can go through the compensation formality in the library. If you can not purchase the same book or periodical of the same edition, you should compensate for it according to the following standard:

Compensate for 4 times of original cost for general books.

Compensate for 6 times of original cost for instrumental books and periodicals, foreign language ones and valuable ones with only two copies.

Compensate for 10 times of original cost for Chinese and foreign language books and periodicals with only one copy in library.

Compensate for 10 times of original cost for one copy (book, collection) of many periodicals.

Compensate for each page for those books and periodicals without the price or published before 1989: 0.08 yuan RMB each page for B5 of Chinese ones; 0.04 yuan RMB each page for A4; 0.1 yuan RMB each page for B5 of photocopied foreign language ones; 5 yuan RMB each page for foreign language books and periodicals, colored albums and picture collections of original edition in any format; also add 5 yuan RMB as binding fee for various kinds of deluxe books and periodicals. if you find your lost book within two moths after the compensation, you can ask the refund at the Library Card Center.

You will not receive  refund if you lost the compensation receipt or later than 2 months or more have passed since payment. Then you have to pay 1yuan as service charge when you go through the refund formality and at the same time you must pay overdue fine calculated from compensation date to refund date according to relevant overdue rules.

Defilement compensation

 When borrowing books or periodicals, readers must carefully check out whether the copy is complete and clean. If you find the copy has been torn, but with no signs as  'torn' or 'skipping leaf' in it, please contact a librarian before you borrow. Otherwise, if you borrow a originally torn copy with no statement signs, you should compensate for it.

As in the case of lose of books, if any part of the book is torn (including charts or adjoining pages), or text with serious defilements that hinders other readers' reading, or over 5 pages with mark, note, written answers are considered as the behavior of defiling the whole book. In this case, the user will compensate for his behavior according to article 1 in loss-compensation rules.

The user will compensate the original cost of the book for defilements and small amount of marks or writings that are not serious and do not hinder other users' reading.

The user who causes front cover or back cover to come off but does not defile the text will compensate for 40% of original cost of the book. 

Code of Conduct
 
Smoking, eating, drinking and noise, including conversation within the silent areas, and other  improper conduct are prohibited. Food and drink must not be brought into the Library.

Mobiles, pagers and personal audio equipment must be switched off before entering the Library.

Writing in or otherwise defacing, or damaging, Library property is prohibited.

All users must leave the Library promptly when the library is closing or any other reason for evacuating the building is signaled.

Regulation on Library Card 

The library card is valid membership identification to borrow and read books. The library members are supposed to show their card when borrowing or reading books/periodicals in the library.

The following persons are eligible for membership of the Library: members of the staff of the University and registered students of the University (general sort).

The membership and library card application and other related services are offered in the Library Card Center on 2nd floor of the library. The opening hours are 8:00-11:30 and 14:00-17:30 from Monday to Friday. At provision of the applicant's student ID (or Staff ID), one standard photo (1 inch) and 10yuan (card cost) the applicant may apply for a library card.

The registered students besides the groups defined in 2 shall pay 300 yuan RMB as a deposit.

A new IC library card is set with a universal access password. It is suggested to reset the password with eight Arabic numerals in the Library Card Center after cards being issued. Members of the Library will be held-responsible failure to reset their new password in time.

Please try and remember your library card password as it is required when taking a loan and wrong inputs will lead to the card-reading machine eating your card. In case the card password is forgotten, the card holder may apply for password recall service in the Card office,  and service fee of 1 yuan RMB will required.

You must take good care of your library card. Once you lose it, you can apply for a new one in the Library Card Center on 2nd floor of the library with unit (or department) confirmation letter, your own student ID (or Labor ID), one photo of one inch without hat or hair cover and 10 yuan RMB for card cost .

The library card can only be used  by yourself. You can not lend it to others otherwise the library will detain your card for half year, and you and the user who uses your card in your name have to individually pay for the fines 10 yuan RMB. For those who borrow books using the other's card without permission, they will be regarded and fined as book-stealers.  

Keep IC borrowing card clear, keep it far from high temperature, magnetic field and water source. Avoid machine abrasion or breakage.

Check out the books when you borrow them and state the breakage, slipped page or mark to the librarian, otherwise you must compensate for these yourself.

Remember the borrowing date otherwise you will be be given an overdue fee.

Return your borrowing card to the library before your departure from the university.