Establishment and Operation of Deposit Stations Rules
1. | The Delhi Library Board may establish Deposit Stations in any part of the Union Territory of Delhi subject to availability of resources. |
2. | For this purpose the Board shall authorise any public or private institution to operate a Deposit Station on its behalf subject to the rules in force and other instructions to be issued by the Director General, Delhi Public Library in pursuance thereof. |
3. | The authority willing to operate a Deposit Station on behalf of the Board shall have to apply to the Director General, Delhi Public Library. |
4. | The Institution concerned will have to satisfy the Director General, Delhi Public Library that it has the requisite accommodation, furniture, equipment and staff for operating the Deposit Station. |
5. | The Board will ordinarily provide book-stack only. |
6. | The Institution operating the Deposit Station shall be solely responsible for the safe custody of book-stack and other library property lent to it and shall have to make good losses, if any. |
7. | The membership of the Deposit Station shall be free and open to all the residents of the locality where it is situated. |
8. | The Deposit Station will have to be kept open for at least three hours daily either at a stretch or in two shifts fixed by the operating authority in consultation with the Director General, Delhi Public Library. |
9. | A Deposit Station is expected to have at least 200 registered members and a monthly issue of at least 500 within one year of its establishment. |
10. | The Deposit Station will in the first instance be opened for a period of one year at the end of which its working will be evaluated by the Director and a report made to the Chairman, Delhi Library Board. |
11. | The General Rules of the Delhi Public Library with regard to registration of members, borrowing of books etc. shall be applicable to the members of the Deposit Station. |
12. | The operating Institution shall nominate its representative who will assist the Director General, Delhi Public Library in proper running of the Deposit Station. |
13. | The Delhi Library Board shall have the exclusive right to close down any Deposit Station at any time after giving a notice of thirty days through the Secretary, Delhi Library Board to the authority operating the Deposit Station. The decision of the Board in this regard shall be final and binding. |