Wednesday 18 May 2016

Tell Us survey feedback - defacing books

You said:
Prevent students from defacing pages of the books with pencil, pen, or highlighters.
It is noisy and rowdy at times and that includes the so-called silent areas especially the rooms.

We say:
Defaced books is a universal library problem. If anyone is caught defacing a print item from Learning
Resources they will be charged the replacement cost of that item. The problem is catching someone doing
 it. We need categorical proof before we can take action.

Learning Resources has Silent floors at Luton and Bedford These floors are monitored electronically so 
if noise gets to the red light alert staff will attend and diffuse any noise the electronic monitoring is 
backed up by staff patrols. If anyone is making a noise in the Silent area they will get one verbal warning. 
If they are caught making a noise again they will be issued with a Written Warning and fall into the 
3 strike regime of sanctions in Learning Resources. They will also be asked to move to a different floor.
http://lrweb.beds.ac.uk/libraryservices/availableservices/codeofpractice/sanctions