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OOC: New Library Rules
New Library Rules
The following new library rules have been approved by Spider Jerusalem and Dean Bristow. These rules are not retroactive. Anything done prior to this posting is grandfathered in.
1. No one but Methos may ban a student from Special Collections. (That's not to say Methos won't go along with what the library staff suggests. If we have good reason. Beinglazy Methos, he will likely listen to us especially if we threaten to withhold or offer to bribe him with coffee as he understands our innate intelligence.) In other words, be nice to the library staff.
2. Only library staff may open the library. We will open it in [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] and tag it library. If anyone wants in the library and they're non-library staff, please post that you're waiting outside the library for someone to open it, and one of us will make a post opening the library.
3. All of the dangerous books, books with practical magical applications, and other CPDs (Convenient Plot Devices) are in Special Collections. Each one is labelled with a color-coded sticker which cannot be removed except by library staff. No one may check out a book from Special Collections. No students except for library staff are allowed inside Special Collections without a note from a teacher granting permission for a specific project (either classroom or independent study).
In other words, if you want access to Special Collections, you have to work for it. If you want to steal something from Special Collections? We're really going to make you work for it. This isn't meant to be a total discouragement, but it is meant to make you think about whether you really want to do this before you do it.
4. Your teacher's note granting access to Special Collections grants you a one-time pass. Each time you want in (yes, even multiple times on the same day), you need a new note. Your teacher needs to leave the note here to do that.
Note: This a public record. The location will be linked in the userinfo of the library staff.
5. There is a record of which books have been checked out and by whom. There is a record of which books are accessed in Special Collections. This record is only available to library staff and the school's administrators (Dean Bristow and Spider Jerusalem). Do you really want them to know you've been looking at books on mind control one day and the next day, someone snaps and does all your homework for you? Think about it.
The record of what books have been checked out/examined and by whom is here and will be linked in the userinfo of the library staff.
6. You may not uncover any information regarding a character in this game or that character's background without permission from that character. This is non-negotiable.
7. The library staff is coming up with a list of books available in Special Collections. That list will be updated as players voice their needs. Basically, Special Collections has almost anything in it. Whether it's in a language you can read? Whether you can retain your sanity after reading it? (*resists urge to make Call of Cthulhu joke*) Also debatable. Whether you're sane in the first place? We're so not making that call. ETA: You may not photocopy anything from Special Collections. Photocopiers do not work in there. And no book leaves Special Collections. Ever.
If it's something that will harm someone else, allow you or anyone to harm someone else, or the library staff just plain thinks it's creepy, it's been labelled dangerous. In other words, "dangerous" is in the eye of the beholder, and we're it. On an OOC level, please let the library staff know if the book you're looking for is dangerous. It is marked in the card catalog that way, and we will need to roleplay it accordingly. (Yes, we're repeating this. We don't want to ban anyone's access to the books; that's antithetical to the views of the library staff andmost of their characters, but we will make you work to get the dangerous and creepy stuff.)
8. The basic Library Rules of Conduct are here. Read them, learn them, love them.And remember, the library assistants own Methos' soul. We're gentle, kind masters. Really.
9. Special Collections is a fluid space and semi-sentient entity in its own right. It shifts location and appearance with every visit. The library staff will be taking on thefun challenge of roleplaying Special Collections in order to make things more difficult enjoyable for you IC. FYI, electronic and magical monitoring of events taking place in Special Collections is possible, but incredibly unreliable and difficult. Also, library staff have an advantage in Special Collections. We have a somewhat unreliable map which allows us to go in there and not always get lost. Also, we work there. It likes us. For the record, the Special Collections journal is [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] and it is munned by the library staff as needed. All Special Collections posts to [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] must be originated by that journal.
For everyone's information, the library staff consists of Professor Adam Pierson ([Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]), Janet Fraiser ([Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]), Zero ([Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]), and Miss Parker ([Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]) and the IC rules for the library are here.
The following new library rules have been approved by Spider Jerusalem and Dean Bristow. These rules are not retroactive. Anything done prior to this posting is grandfathered in.
1. No one but Methos may ban a student from Special Collections. (That's not to say Methos won't go along with what the library staff suggests. If we have good reason. Being
2. Only library staff may open the library. We will open it in [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] and tag it library. If anyone wants in the library and they're non-library staff, please post that you're waiting outside the library for someone to open it, and one of us will make a post opening the library.
3. All of the dangerous books, books with practical magical applications, and other CPDs (Convenient Plot Devices) are in Special Collections. Each one is labelled with a color-coded sticker which cannot be removed except by library staff. No one may check out a book from Special Collections. No students except for library staff are allowed inside Special Collections without a note from a teacher granting permission for a specific project (either classroom or independent study).
In other words, if you want access to Special Collections, you have to work for it. If you want to steal something from Special Collections? We're really going to make you work for it. This isn't meant to be a total discouragement, but it is meant to make you think about whether you really want to do this before you do it.
4. Your teacher's note granting access to Special Collections grants you a one-time pass. Each time you want in (yes, even multiple times on the same day), you need a new note. Your teacher needs to leave the note here to do that.
Note: This a public record. The location will be linked in the userinfo of the library staff.
5. There is a record of which books have been checked out and by whom. There is a record of which books are accessed in Special Collections. This record is only available to library staff and the school's administrators (Dean Bristow and Spider Jerusalem). Do you really want them to know you've been looking at books on mind control one day and the next day, someone snaps and does all your homework for you? Think about it.
The record of what books have been checked out/examined and by whom is here and will be linked in the userinfo of the library staff.
6. You may not uncover any information regarding a character in this game or that character's background without permission from that character. This is non-negotiable.
7. The library staff is coming up with a list of books available in Special Collections. That list will be updated as players voice their needs. Basically, Special Collections has almost anything in it. Whether it's in a language you can read? Whether you can retain your sanity after reading it? (*resists urge to make Call of Cthulhu joke*) Also debatable. Whether you're sane in the first place? We're so not making that call. ETA: You may not photocopy anything from Special Collections. Photocopiers do not work in there. And no book leaves Special Collections. Ever.
If it's something that will harm someone else, allow you or anyone to harm someone else, or the library staff just plain thinks it's creepy, it's been labelled dangerous. In other words, "dangerous" is in the eye of the beholder, and we're it. On an OOC level, please let the library staff know if the book you're looking for is dangerous. It is marked in the card catalog that way, and we will need to roleplay it accordingly. (Yes, we're repeating this. We don't want to ban anyone's access to the books; that's antithetical to the views of the library staff and
8. The basic Library Rules of Conduct are here. Read them, learn them, love them.
9. Special Collections is a fluid space and semi-sentient entity in its own right. It shifts location and appearance with every visit. The library staff will be taking on the
For everyone's information, the library staff consists of Professor Adam Pierson ([Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]), Janet Fraiser ([Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]), Zero ([Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]), and Miss Parker ([Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]) and the IC rules for the library are here.