{"id":50521,"date":"2024-08-18T19:47:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T19:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/155.0.14.112\/?page_id=50521"},"modified":"2024-10-01T14:37:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T14:37:14","slug":"library-rules-regulations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nipa.ac.zm\/index.php\/library-rules-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"library-rules-regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"50521\" class=\"elementor elementor-50521\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3419de9 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3419de9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f51eba8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f51eba8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"sppb-addon-1597765661194\" class=\"clearfix\"><div class=\"sppb-addon sppb-addon-header border-heading-style sppb-text-left\"><h3 class=\"sppb-addon-title\">SUMMARY OF THE LIBRARY RULES AND REGULATIONS<\/h3><\/div><\/div><div id=\"sppb-addon-1597765661195\" class=\"clearfix\"><div class=\"sppb-addon sppb-addon-text-block 0 sppb-text-left \"><div class=\"sppb-addon-content\"><ol><li><strong>MEMBERSHIP:<\/strong><ul><li>All NIPA registered students who have paid the minimum approved tuition fees are eligible to become patrons upon registering with the library.<\/li><li>All NIPA full time members of staff are eligible to access the library. However, they can only borrow materials from the library upon registering with the library.<\/li><li>Part time members of staff are not eligible to borrow materials from the library but can do so through their Head of Department and colleagues.<\/li><li>Members of the public are eligible to become patrons of the library upon meeting the stipulated conditions, payment of the prescribed membership fees and subsequent registration with the library.<\/li><li>Existing internal patrons (students) and external patrons of the library are only eligible to access the library with valid paid up membership.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ol><p>\u00a0<\/p><ol start=\"2\"><li><strong>GENERAL RULES:<\/strong><ul><li>When entering the library and borrowing library materials, a patron shall\u00a0<strong>produce their NIPA identity card<\/strong>.<\/li><li>Where applicable, a patron shall use his\/her NIPA identity card to borrow a book from the Short Loan section or Open shelf.<\/li><li>Loan period for short Loan section is 3 hours during the day, and overnight from 15:30hours to 10:00hours the next day. Weekend borrowing is from 15:30hours on Friday to 10:00hours on Monday. Any overdue will be charged at K2.00 per hour or part thereof.<\/li><li>Loan period for the open shelf collection is 3 weeks. Any overdue will be charged at K2.00 per day.<\/li><li>It is the responsibility of the patron to take care of any library material borrowed. Quickly report any loss or damage of library material to the Librarian.<\/li><li>Strictly\u00a0<strong>no eating or drinking in the library<\/strong>\u00a0to avoid introduction of cockroaches and other insects which may destroy books.<\/li><li>Patrons are not allowed to take calls in the main reading spaces but can do so from the\u00a0<strong>Phone Zone<\/strong>\u00a0areas within the library.<\/li><li>Patrons are not allowed to spend more than 30 minutes in the Library Lounge to give chance to others.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ol><p>\u00a0<\/p><h2><em>PLEASE OBSERVE SILENCE<\/em><\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUMMARY OF THE LIBRARY RULES AND REGULATIONS MEMBERSHIP: All NIPA registered students who have paid the minimum approved tuition fees are eligible to become patrons upon registering with the library. All NIPA full time members of staff are eligible to access the library. However, they can only borrow materials from the library upon registering with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50521","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"tharrison","author_link":"https:\/\/www.nipa.ac.zm\/index.php\/author\/tharrison\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":null,"rttpg_excerpt":"SUMMARY OF THE LIBRARY RULES AND REGULATIONS MEMBERSHIP: All NIPA registered students who have paid the minimum approved tuition fees are eligible to become patrons upon registering with the library. All NIPA full time members of staff are eligible to access the library. 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