LIBRARY DEPARTMENT OF QUEEN'S Librarian-HENRY HENNESSY, ESQ THE general constitution of the College Library is declared by the Statutes, pages 29 and 36. It contains at present about 5000 volumes, including all the more important works, which are necessary to facilitate the progress of the students in the several courses of study pursued in the schools and faculties of the College, and for the literary and scientific research of the professors and senior scholars. The discipline of the Library is in charge of the Librarian, and its general management is vested in a committee, which reports weekly to the College Council. The rules under which the Library is availed of by the professors, officers, and students of the College, are as follows: GENERAL REGULATIONS. 1. The Library shall be accessible to the professors, officers, and students of the College. 2. Every student taking advantage of the Library, shall be required to make a declaration that he will conform to the Library regulations. The professors and officers shall be considered as bound by the same rules, so far as those rules are of a general nature, and tend either to the conservation of the Library or of the mutual rights of those who use it. 3. The Librarian shall be in attendance at the Library from 10 o'clock, A. M., to 1 o'clock, P. M., and from 2 o'clock, P. M., to 4 o'clock, P. M., in the winter, and 5 o'clock, P. M., in the other seasons. During his absence between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock, A. M., and of 1 and 2 o'clock, P. M., he shall be allowed to employ a porter and one of the Scholars as his substitutes. 2 4. He shall immediately prepare a catalogue of the works in the Library, arranged alphabetically according to the authors' names, and a catalogue raisonnée of the same, classified according to their subjects. 5. He shall immediately acknowledge all donations to the Library, by letters to the donors, and report their receipt to the Committee and to the Council. 6. He shall be responsible for the value of all lost books of which he is unable to give a satisfactory account to the Library Committee. 7. The professors and officers shall be entitled to take out six volumes at a time, but any larger number may be obtained on special application. The students shall be entitled to one volume at a time. 8. Every professor and student shall be required after the first fortnight to renew once a week the books in his possession, and to return immediately any book which may have been applied for. Any one neglecting this rule, shall be subjected to a fine of sixpence per day. 9. Periodical works shall lie on the Library table for one month, and other new works for one fortnight, before passing into circulation. 10. Non-matriculated students may be admitted to the use of the Library on payment of fifteen shillings for each session. SPECIAL REGULATIONS. 1. The Library is open every day, from 9, A. M., till 4, P. M., in the winter, and 5, P. M., in the other seasons, except on Saturdays, when it is open from 10, a. M., till 1, P. M. On Sundays it is closed. 2. No matriculated student of the College can be admitted to read in the Library, except in academic dress. 3. Perfect silence is to be observed in the Library. 4. Students are to sit at the tables, and not to stand together in any part of the Library. 5. A student wishing for a book is required to write down the name of the book, his own name, and the date of application, on a piece of paper, and hand it to the Librarian. He shall be responsible for the book, until this application has been returned to him by the Librarian. 6. Students must not displace the books on the shelves. The books are to be taken down and replaced by the Librarian. 7. A student writing must not place his paper on a book, nor lean on it with his arm, nor make any mark in any book; nor do anything else which, in the opinion of the Librarian, may damage the books. 8. The Librarian is directed to preserve order, and to report to the Library Committee any continued breach of these regulations, and any attempt to disturb the order of the Library. LOAN OF BOOKS. 9. Students who wish to have the privilege of taking books out of the Library, must deposit £1 in the Bursar's office, and an account shall be kept of these deposits, and a receipt given to the student. 10. Any student who has paid this deposit shall be entitled, under restrictions hereinafter mentioned, to receive any book from the Library, upon giving a written order to the Librarian, and to keep it for a fortnight, but he must not have more than one volume at a time. He must renew any book in his possession at the end of the fortnight, and afterwards once a week, and return immediately any book applied for which has been a fortnight in his possession. 11. Any student detaining a book beyond the time above-mentioned, shall pay a fine of sixpence for each day. 12. If a student lose any volume, and do not replace it, he shall pay the full value of the set to which it belongs; the value to be estimated by the Library Committee; and if he damage any volume, and do not replace it, he shall be liable to pay the full value of the set, or any sum less than the full value, at the discretion of the Library Committee. 13. Any payment thus ordered, or any arrear of fines not otherwise paid, shall be paid out of the deposit. When any deposit is thus diminished, the depositor shall lose his privilege of taking out books until the sum of £1 is made good. 14. The Librarian shall not suffer to be taken out of the Library, by a student, any dictionary, or any work of reference, arranged in alphabetical order, or any work of which the chief value consists in plates and embellishments. 15. Any professor may prohibit a book being issued from the Library during a limited time, and the Library Committee may make a permament list of books not to be issued. 16. The Librarian shall have a discretionary power of refusing the issue of any book, but on so doing, he shall be bound to report the fact and his reason to the Council. By the provisions of clauses xv. and xvi. of the Colleges' Act (see page 8), and of the Statutes, chapter xviii. (see page 39), it is ordained that every student who does not reside with his parents or guardians, or with some friend to whose care his parents or guardians shall have specially committed him, shall be required to reside in some house licensed by the President to receive students as boarders; and those houses are directed by the Statutes, to be strictly supervised as to the maintenance of moral and religious discipline therein, and to their being suitably provided for the health and comfort of the student. For the better maintenance of moral and religious discipline in the licensed boarding-houses, clergymen have been appointed by Her Majesty for each of the most numerous religious denominations, to whom are committed the moral care and spiritual charge of the students of their respective creeds, resident in licensed boarding-houses. For the Statutes regulating the duties and powers of the Deans of Residences, see the respective sections of the Statutes, page 40. The following regulations have been issued by the President for the government of the licensed boardinghouses. REGULATIONS To be observed by Proprietors of Houses licensed by the President, for the Residence of Students of Queen's College, Cork, under Penalty of Withdrawal of License. 1. The proprietor shall, on the first day of each term, make a return to the Registrar of the College, of the names of all students residing therein. 2. In case of students commencing to reside during a term, their names shall be reported to the Registrar, immediately on their entering into possession of their rooms. 3. The proprietor shall in all cases arrange that each student shall have a separate bed, and separate means of cleanliness; and shall, in case of more than one person sleeping in the same room, lodge with the Bursar of the College a plan of such room, with the arrangement of beds proposed. |