Library rules and services during the coronavirus emergency

When

From 10.00 – 19.00, Monday to Friday to a maximum of 60 users with active EUI status. 

Staff is available from 10.00 to 18.00.

How to access

Both the entrance and the exit are through the door in the President's corridor.
The door to the Vasco da Gama room will be closed. 

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 1.8m social distance rule. The Library will provide a 10 square metre perimeter for each user.

No go areas 

Use of the lifts in the Library is not permitted. The Discussion Room and 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.