THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE
Of the Central Children's Library named after А. Gaidar in Sevastopol
1. General provisions1.1. Instruction for use Of the Central Children's Library named after А. Gaidar in Sevastopol - is a document regulating mutual relations between the users and library.
Central Children's Library named after А. Gaidar is specialized cultural, information, leasure, educational, scientific - methodical centre, that has library fund and gives them in temporary usage.
1.2. In the system of the libraries of city Central Children's Library named after А. Gaidar is:
- - the head library in the Centralized Library System for children;
- Organisational-methodical and coordination centre of library service of children and teenagers for all libraries, irrespective of their subordination
- Information-bibliographic centre on work with the book for children, teenagers and chiefs of children's reading, centre of the recommendatory bibliography on kraevedenie for children and teenagers.
1.5. The present Rules are developed according to the Law of Ukraine "About Libraries and Library Business", Charter of the Central Childrens' Library named after А. Gaidar and "The Typical Instructions for Use Of Libraries in Ukraine ", authorized by the order of the Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine № 275 from 05.05.99.
2. The Rights of the Users
2.1. The users of the library services are:
kindergarden children and pupils of 1-9 classes, chiefs of children's reading (teacher, tutors of kindergardens, children's houses, parents), workers of establishments and organizations that work with children .
2.2. The users of library have the right to receive free of charge the information on structure of library funds, advices and help, in search of sources of the information; to receive books, periodic editions and other documents in temporary usage, to take part in mass measures spent by library, to enter the reader's associations and councils.
2.3. The users have the right to take home no more than 5 documents for the period of 15 days. The quantity
of the library documents given for work in a reading hall is not limited. Each library independently defines types and kinds of the documents which are given out only in a reading hall.
2.4. The users have the right to take out of library the documents, if they are written down in the reader's data card.
Term of usage of the documents can be prolonged at the request of the user no more than 2 times, if there is no demand on these documents by other users.
2.5. Rare, valuable, reference editions, and also the editions received by the interlibrary subscription (ILS), are given out only in a reading hall.
2.6. The distribution for home use of the documents with increased demand, and also valuable editions can be carried out under a money pledge (according to the order of the Centralized Library System for children " About the order of use in libraries of the Centralized Library System of a money pledge for the especially valuable books ").
For children the money pledge is brought in by the parents.
2.7. The persons temporarily living in city Sevastopol, have the right to use a reading hall or to receive the documents for home use under a money pledge.
2.8. The user has the right to use the paid services of the library according to "The List of paid services given by libraries of the Centralized Library System for children of Sevastopol "
.3. The Duty of the Users
3.1. For record in library the users show the passport or a document, replacing it, (s)he gets acquainted with the Instructions of Use of the Library, signs the obligations to carry them out and gives the items of information for filling the reader's data card and registration card.
Children and teenagers under 16 years enter the library at a presence of the passport of their parents or other lawful representatives. For record in a reading hall the documents are not necessary.
At record of kindergarden children on a face sheet of the reader's data card their parents or persons, under which supervision they are, undersign.
3.2. The reader should be careful with library funds; at the reception the literature should be checked up with its quantity and presence of damages and in case of revealing defects to warn about it the librarian. The librarian should make the appropriate mark. Otherwise responsibility for revealed in the books and magazines defects is carried by the user.
3.3. For each document received on the subscription, user (except for, kindergarden children and pupils of 1-4 classes) undersigns in the reader's data card. The return of the documents is proved to be true by the signature of the librarian.
3.4. The user who has lost or damaged the document from fund of the library, is obliged to replace it by similar or equivalent document, or to compensate with a real cost of the document, which will be defined by a Commission on work with fund.
3.5. For the loss or damage of the document from fund of the library for the premature user the responsibility is carried by his parents, educational institution or establishment, under which supervision he is.
3.6. The user that breaks the instructions for use of the library, loses the right to attend it for the term determined by library.
3.7. At change of a place of residing, education, change of a surname the reader should inform about it the librarian.
4. The Duty of the Library on service of the users
The library is obliged:
- To inform the user on all kinds of services rendered by library, including paid, which list is authorized by the director of the Centralized Library System for children
;- To create conditions for use of library fund, work in library, to assist in selection of the necessary documents
- To care about the culture of service of the users
- To form at the user a need for the information, usage of libraries, to promote the increase of culture of reading
- To create at libraries reader's associations, clubs by interests
- To carry out regularly the control of duly returning of the documents, given to the users, to the library
- To take into account reader's inquiries at formation of fund, realization of mass measures
- To create reader's councils, to report before the users of library.