We ask you to:

• Use library materials and equipment with care and respect and refrain from marking or damaging library resources or property.
• Let library staff re-shelve books. Please leave library materials in designated areas; we’ll put them back in the right spot.
• Sign out library materials before leaving the Library.
• Return or renew materials when due.
• Comply with the reasonable direction of Library Staff and/or Campus Safety.
• Comply with the Library Borrowing Policy.

We ask you to:

• Exit the Library promptly at closing time and during emergency situations or drills.
• Refrain from vandalizing, defacing, or obstructing access to the Library buildings, furniture, equipment, or materials, or engaging in behaviour that could do so.
• Use your sporting equipment outside the library. This includes:
  • Wheeled recreation devices; for example: bicycles, scooters, inline skates, skateboards,etc.
  • Anything you might throw, like balls or flying discs (which we loan at the Ask Us desk for outdoor use).
• Refrain from covering windows in closed carrels or group study rooms.
• Use library computers and other digital resources responsibly to support teaching, learning and research.
• Follow the Library’s  Computer Use Guidelines and the University’s Guide to Academic Computing Behaviour.
• Be prepared to show Brock University or other identification upon request by library staff.

We ask you to:

• Observe the food and drink policy by enjoying your beverages with a lid, using the recycling and garbage bins available on all floors, and reporting spills and waste issues to Library staff. Please don’t eat or drink in the Archives & Special Collections.
• Be mindful of noise levels and observe posted noise level designations in library study and work spaces.
• Refrain from smoking, vaping, or using illegal drugs in the Library.
• Service animals are welcome in the Library. Animals not visibly identified as service animals are not permitted.
• Refrain from any threatening or intimidating behaviour as outlined in Brock’s Student Code of Conduct and Brock’s Sexual Violence Policy.
• Refrain from soliciting or selling within the library, without express permission.
• Be considerate of and treat others, including library staff, courteously and respectfully.

In order to satisfy the Library’s mission to secure its resources and provide a safe learning and study environment for staff and library patrons, library staff are authorized to:

• Alert Campus Safety who may check all possessions of persons as they leave the Library.
• Request to see the identification of any person in the Library.
• Question any person if it appears that library regulations are being violated.
• Request any person in conflict with library regulations to leave the Library.
• Contact Brock University Campus Safety Services and request that any person having been identified as violating library regulations wait until Campus Safety Services personnel arrives.