Rules for the Wooster Public Library and Museum (1905)

Hours: 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM daily except Sunday hours were 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM.

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Officers
Meetings of the Board
Officers' Duties
Articles 8-11
Articles 12-15
Articles 16, Amendments
Rules for the Government
Rules for the Government
Drawn books, Fines
Rules for the Government
Overdue notices
injuries to books
Form of reader's card
Rules for the Government
Rules may be amended
Ohio Statute, Sec. 6863
Wooster Ordinance, Sec. 8

Patron rules

Reading and reference rooms were open to "any person of good deportment and habits" but no person would "be allowed to use tobacco in any form, lounge or sleep, partake of refreshments or use the rooms for purposes for which they are not intended."
Silence was expected
Reference books and periodicals were to be used only in the library.
Residents of Wooster and the Wooster City School District and pupils over eight years old were allowed to borrow books after signing the prescribed application and offering security for the return of the books.
Non-residents of Wooster were required to pay an annual fee of one dollar to use the library.
Two books could be borrowed at one time and kept for two weeks, after which they could not be borrowed again for three months.
A third book could be borrowed by paying ten cents.
Fines were set at two cents a day and could accumulate up to the value of the book.
Fines were also levied for abuse such as marking a book, even with a lead pencil or turning down the corners of the pages.
Rules warned that anyone who abused library property was liable to prosecution under the Ohio Statue and City ordinances for the protection of library property.