Library rules and services during the coronavirus emergency

When

From 09.00 – 20.30, Monday to Friday  and from 9.00 to 18.00 on Saturday to a maximum of 174 users with active EUI status. 

Staff is available from Monday to Friday from 09.00 to 18.00.

How to access

The entrance is from the Lower Loggia (Vasco da Gama room).

Working spaces

Working spaces are assigned on a first-come-first-served basis. Working spaces are located according to regulations stipulated by the EUI Security Officer. Each working space will have details of required code of behaviour in the Library, and a list of security and safety regulations. All users must observe the 1m social distance rule.

Check how many workspaces we have left in real time on our Affluence page. 

The Discussion room can be booked for videocalls or for discussions with maximum four people.

No go areas 

Use of the lifts in the Library is not permitted. The Social Room on the second floor are also off limits.

Exit

The sole exit is through the door in the loan desk area.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

All users must wear face masks when they enter the Library and when they are walking anywhere else. Wearing face masks is also obligatory when sitting.

Handling printed books

Users can access books on shelf. After consultation, all books must be left on the clearly marked trolleys nearby. All consulted books will be collected each evening and will be sanitised. Users wishing to consult a book for more than one day should take the book on loan. All books returning from loan should be placed in the drop boxes for sanitisation.

Hygiene

All bathrooms, working spaces, multifunction machines, water fountains, entrance area and loan desk will be disinfected regularly during opening hours. Disinfecting gel will be available in the Library. When turned on, the air conditioning in the Library does not recycle air, but it uses refrigerated air sourced from the outside.

Book sanitisation

The Library, in collaboration with REFs, acquired several devices to sterilise books. All items delivered to and from the villas are sterilised by UV light. Items returned from loan or handled inside the Library are disinfected with dry steam at 160ºC.