Bucharest Central UniversityLibrary Users by Category  

Art.26(1) BCU is accessible to the following user categories:

(a) teaching staff of the University of Bucharest, public and private higher education institutes in Bucharest and in the country, higher schools abroad, and pre-university education units;

(b) students at the University of Bucharest, public and private higher education units in Bucharest and in the country, foreign students enrolled in education programs and projects;

(c) researchers at the University of Bucharest, public and private higher education units in Bucharest and in the country, researchers outside the Ministry of Education, Research and Youth network;

(d) doctoral students at the University of Bucharest, public and private higher education units in Bucharest and in the country or abroad;

(e) specialists in various fields of culture and science;

(f) high-school students, with recommendation from school;

(g) other.

(2) BCU reserves the right to restrain library access of (e) through (g) user categories in early and regular examination season, over a period to be determined by BCU governors.

Library Permit

Art.27(1) Any person in the categories stated at Art. 26 seeking access to Library collections and services shall apply for a valid Permit to the Central Unit and its subsidiaries.

(2) Permits are issued and renewed (stamped) by subsidiary libraries, to teachers, researchers, doctoral students and students at the University of Bucharest, and by the Central Unit, to other user categories listed at Art. 26.

Art.28. A Permit is issued and stamped upon user’s payment of a fee to be defined at the start of every academic year. Retired university teaching staff, social assistance scholarship recipient students, foreign students enrolled in education programs and projects, foreign doctoral students, Olympic students, prominent Library benefactors, disabled persons, BCU employees and retirees are entitled to a free Permit supported by documents.

Art.29(1) Being issued with a Permit, a user shall be made aware of BCU Operation Rules, as well as of Library services, fees and where they are posted.

(2)  At Central Unit, a user is issued with a Library Permit upon signing a Statement of compliance with the obligations as defined herein. Except for university professors and retirees, all users shall take a guided tour of the Library offered by staff at no cost.

(3) At subsidiary libraries, a user is issued with a Library Permit upon signing an Application and supplying two duly stamped envelopes.

(4) Users issued with a Permit by one subsidiary library who may wish to have access to the Central Unit shall register with the Central Unit database and Central Unit Permit Issuing Office, as well as take a guided tour of the Library.

Art.30 Users have access to Central Unit collections and services by a Card they are given in exchange for Library Permit. On leaving Library premises, a user shall return the Card and take back the Permit.

Art.31 The Library Permit and the Card are non-transferable.

Art.32(1) Loss of the Permit shall instantly be reported to the issuing unit and the Permit made null and void by a statement the User is liable for. Otherwise, the user shall be liable for any damage incurred by BCU through use of the Permit by somebody else. A new Permit is issued subject to fee payment.

(2) To be issued with the Permit, the User shall provide the Records of return of all lent-out printed material, with all libraries the User could lend from confirming the clean record.

User Services

Access to Documents and Information in Reading Rooms

Art.33. BCU user access to documents is either direct, for freely accessible documents on shelves, or indirect, for documents in storage that have to be requested.

Art.34. At entry to the reading room, a user shall show the custodian the Permit (in subsidiary libraries) or Access Card (at Central Unit) and fill in legibly the columns of Users’File (in libraries that maintain such type of records).

Art.35(1) Users may request documents from BCU collections by filling in a request form.

(2) Users may request up to three volumes of publications in storage at a time, or retain up to three volumes of direct-access publications at a time, respectively.

(3) Users shall make their last request for publications in storage at least one hour before closing time.

(4) Upon receipt, users shall check the physical condition of publications and report any damage (torn or missing pages, underlining).

(5) Users shall take good care of the publications they are given to read, not make any notes or underline anything thereon, or tear out pages.

(6) On leaving the room, users shall hand out the publications to custodian.

(7) Users shall not leave their reading room places for more than an hour and unless they notify the custodian; otherwise, librarians may re-assign the places to other users.

Art.36. Users shall not take the documents inspected in reading rooms outside BCU premises.

Art.37. Users shall ask the custodian to allow them to take non-BCU assets into the reading room.

Art.38(1) Users shall let reading room custodians know whenever they want to photocopy a publication.

(2) Publications may be photocopied provided they are in good condition and unless the provisions of Law No. 8 of March 4, 1996 on copyright and related rights are infringed. It is forbidden to copy manuscripts, correspondence, early and/or bibliophilic publications, newspapers bound in volume form.

Art.39(1) The database the Library provides access to and CD-ROMs, as well as the information made available on Internet may be inspected in special places, subject to custodian’s approval.

(2) Users may use the computers to inspect their own CD-ROMs and diskettes, after they were checked for viruses and cleaned, if necessary, by custodian.

(3) Users may check their e-mail, or they may photocopy, process, print, copy data on diskettes and CDs, as well as scan images. Information may only be printed subject to custodian consent.

(4) Users shall not access pornographic, offending or disparaging websites.

Lending

Art.40. Loans of publications may be direct or inter-library, national or international.

Art.41(1) Direct loans are made to the teaching staff, students and doctoral students of the University of Bucharest. Direct loans are made in subsidiary libraries only.

(2) The number of titles lent simultaneously and lending time shall be defined by each library, and depends on how many copies of a title it has and how high the request for the title is.

(3) If a title is in high demand, the head of the subsidiary library may decide to rule out lending the book and only make it available on the premises, in reading rooms.

(4) The deadline for returning the publication may be extended once only, for a period to be determined by each department library. For publications that other users seek to borrow, the return deadline may not be extended.

(5) If necessary (checking and inspection operations), on request from BCU, a user shall return any borrowed publication before the deadline.

(6) The following shall not be lent: documents included in special collections (manuscripts, incunabula, early and/or bibliophilic publications, cartographic material, photographs, audio and video recordings), reference works, serial publications, publications received by inter-library lending, direct-access publications.