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Librarian and library committee

3.01 (1) The convocation shall appoint a librarian, who shall hold office during the pleasure of convocation, and shall perform all assigned duties.

(2) The librarian shall have the immediate and general charge of the library under the superintendence of the library committee.

(3) A quorum for meetings of the library committee shall be three (3).
(Adopted: Rule 3.01(3) Winter Term Convocation, January 28, 1991)

Duties of library committee

3.02 (1) It shall be the duty of the library committee to assume the general supervision and management of the library, and to purchase such books therefor as in their judgment may be necessary.

(2) It shall be the duty of the library committee to procure and place in the library, from time to time, the reports of the Supreme Court of Judicature in England, and such other books and reports as the committee shall order.

(3) It shall be the duty of the library committee and every member thereof to enforce and report to convocation any infringement of the rules of the society for the regulation of the library.

Rules of the library

3.03 (1) The library shall be kept open for the use of the members of the law society during such days and such hours as may from time to time be prescribed by convocation.

(2) The visitors, provincial court judges, members of the law society, members of the bar of other provinces and territories of Canada and of other countries, members of the general public of the province, and any other person upon the introduction of a visitor, a bencher or the librarian shall have access to the library in accordance with these rules and under the general supervision of the librarian.
(Amended: Summer Term Convocation, June 4, 1990)

(3) No unnecessary conversation or smoking shall be carried on in the library.

(4) No book shall be carried out of the library except under circumstances authorized by convocation, by this rule or otherwise.

(5) The judges of the Supreme Court, and such other persons as the benchers or the library committee shall decide, shall be at liberty to take books from the library upon application to the librarian; and any member of the law society requiring the use of any book, other than law reports which may be taken for use in court, shall be at liberty to have such book upon application to the librarian. Books taken from the library in pursuance of this rule are in all cases to be returned within forty-eight hours; and any person taking away books from the library except upon such application, or failing to return the same in the manner hereby directed, shall forfeit the benefit allowed by this rule, until restored thereto by order of convocation.

(6) For the application to the librarian, mentioned in the preceding sub-section, it shall be sufficient to enter the date and hour of such application, the name and volume of the book required and the name of the person taking the same in a register book which shall be kept in the library for that purpose. The date and hour of the return of the book shall also be inserted when the book has been returned.

(7) Any barrister, solicitor, student, or articled clerk infringing any of the foregoing sub-sections shall be fined a sum not exceeding thirty dollars, and in the case of the injury, loss or detention of any book or periodical, may in addition be required to restore the volume so injured or detained, or the whole set, if it be one of a set, or to pay the whole value thereof; and upon the repeated infringement of any of the sub-sections, he or she shall be debarred the use of the library.

Regional libraries

3.04 (1) Benchers may from time to time establish regional libraries for the use of members and students practising in centres outside of St. John's.

(2) Any regional library established by benchers shall be managed and operated by a regional library committee established as a sub-committee of the library committee; and the library committee may, with the approval of benchers, delegate such of its duties and authority as it deems fit to such regional library committee.

(3) Any regional library committee may consist of persons who are not members of the society provided that at least one member of the committee is a member of the society.