Library Use Policies

Madisonville Community College Libraries are committed to maintaining an environment that is conducive to study, research, and both individual and collaborative work in order to enhance student learning.  The libraries are open to students, faculty, staff, and members of the community.

To ensure a quiet, pleasant, safe, clean, and respectful atmosphere for both library users and staff, the library has established the following policies regarding the use of its facilities and collections:

• Cell phones: Please set cell phones to "silent" signals.  Conversations on cell phones must be taken outside.
  
• Children: The library is a college library.  Materials have been chosen primarily to meet the needs of adult students.  Parents, guardians, or caretakers are responsible for children's access to library resources and for their behavior in the library.  Close supervision of children must be provided at all times.  Library staff cannot monitor children.  We have a wide range of children's books and puppets supporting the education students which children may use.  Ask at the Help Desk for coloring books and crayons for children's use.  Parents will be asked to remove their children from the library should they be disruptive or distracting to others.
  
• Disruptive behavior: Library patrons engaging in behavior that disrupts others from using the library will be asked to leave the library.
  
• Drinks: Library users may have covered drinks or twist-top cap bottles at tables as they study in the library.  In order to protect library equipment and materials, they should not be opened at the computer terminals or in the stacks.
  
• Quiet Study area: There is a labeled quiet study area in the library near the stacks.  There are also two study rooms which may be scheduled at the Help Desk.
  
• Telephone use : Library telephones are for library business use only.