Long-term Study Rooms Reservation and Distribution

Study Room Terms of Use

Approved at the 157^th Executive Committee Meeting on 23 May 1984

Amended by the 222^nd Executive Committee Meeting on 6 October 1993

Amended by the 251^st Executive Committee Meeting on 5 November 1997

Amended by the 302^nd Executive Committee Meeting on 9 March 2005

Amended by the 325^th Executive Committee Meeting on 30 September 2009

Amended by the 34^th Library Committee Meeting on 25 October 2018

Amended by the 362^nd Executive Committee Meeting on 28 November 2018

Amended by the 36^th Library Committee Meeting on 25 October 2022

I. National Taiwan Normal University Library (hereafter NTNU library) arrange study rooms to facilitate research for faculty and students. In addition to the library rules, the use of the study room should be subject to these terms of use.

II. NTNU full-time teaching faculty (including the lecturer level researcher assistant and above in school centers) and the enrolled students (except students in suspension leave) can apply to reserve the study room in accordance with the terms of use. If the visiting scholar or the researcher has a special research need, the scholar may apply for the study room with the approved project use.

III. The library is in charge of the application of using study rooms. The applicant should bring the valid ID to apply one room at once. The distribution is arranged by the order of the application time. The user should use the room designated by the library personally.

IV. The study rooms in the main library are for long-term, temporary, discussion and project use. The Gungguan library and Linkou library provide long-term and temporary use. The library has the rights the allocate the use of the study rooms with flexibility. The allocation and reservation methods are listed:

1. Long-term use: (1) A month. The application is open from the first to the fifteenth of each month for the next month's reservation. The same room can take up to two applicants at a time to share the room in different time periods. The long-term use of the study room is not open to undergraduate students. (2) the user (including the sharer) cannot reserve the temporary use study room within the same month and cannot apply for the next month use.
2. Temporary use: One day. Apply on the day and can be used by one applicant only.
3. Discussion use: Please visit Group Room Online Booking.
4. Project use: the visiting scholar should apply for use with the official document approved by the department. The period is up to three months in principle. For special research needs, the same procedure applies and the period is one month in principle. If there is no reservation, the user can extend once.

V. The user should reserve the study room at the library counter with NTNU ID card or scan the QR code next to the door to reserve it by himself/herself. The damage of the equipment requires compensation for the price.

VI. The user can bring personal books to the study room. Please do not leave the valuable belongings unattended. The library is not responsible for safekeeping and the loss. Keep the room clean and tidy. Please turn of the lights and air conditioner, close the windows and lock the door while leaving.

VII. The user should use the room during library open hours. Non-research activity should not take place in the room. If the user has the listed behavior, the library has the rights to cancel the use and suspend the user’s right to book the room for three months.

1. Transfer the room to others or exchange with others without the library’s permission.
2. The library books are not returned to the shelf by the end of the day and has been warned by the librarians twice. (Except for the books borrowed.)
3. Eat, drink or smoke indoors.
4. Cover the glass window and interfere the library management. Behavior did not change after persuasion.
5. Electronic equipment that is irrelevant to research.
6. Absence without proper reason after booking the room.
7. Other acts determined by the library to lose the right to use the room.

VIII. For necessary cleaning need, the library can enter the room without the user’s consent.

IX. The user who exceeds the return date or does not leave after the library terminate the use rights, the library shall remove the personal belongings out and reallocate to other users. The library will notify the user regarding the pick up of personally belongings. If the user did not come to collect, they will be discarded one week after the notification.

X. For long-term study room, if the user does not use the room five consecutive days during library opening time, or use the room for less than half of the library open days within the month, the library can recall the room and reallocate to other users. The use logs are based on the system records and will be counted from the sixth of the month. The restriction in the preceding is not limited to those who have reported to and approved by the library.

XI. The library reserves the rights to notify the user to take back the room and the books anytime when necessary.

XII. To serve user with special needs, including visual, hearing, learning and other impairment, the library shall reserve some of the research rooms for exclusive use.

XIII. This terms of the use shall come into force on the date of announcement after the resolution is passed by the NTNU library committee.

 I accept this agreement.