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Trinity College Library

 
Visiting Reader Registration (TAP CDETB) –
Library Regulations

 
Visiting readers will be admitted to use the Library's collections (without borrowing rights) for study and research.

Library Declaration

All readers are required to observe the terms of the Library Declaration.

The following is a translation of the declaration:

I, .........., do solemnly promise that, whenever I enter the Library, I shall treat the books and other content of the Library in such fashion that they may last as long as possible. I further promise that neither shall I myself take away any book, nor designedly damage or write in or badly treat in any way whatever any book, nor so far as in me lies shall I suffer such things to be done by others. All and each of which things and all the regulations of the Library, in as far as they concern me, I promise and vow faithfully to observe.


In its original Latin:

(Man speaking):
Ego, .........., solemniter promitto, me, quoties in Bibliothecam huius Collegii venire contigerit, libros caeteramque Bibliothecae supellectilem sic tractaturum, ut superesse quam diutissime possint. Promitto etiam quod neque ipse librum aliquem asportabo, sponte corrumpam, interscribam, aut alio quovis modo abutar nec ab aliis haec fieri, quantum in me est, permittam. Quae omnia singula et omnia Bibliothecae statuta, quae ad me attinent, me fideliter observaturum promitto et spondeo.

(Woman speaking):
Ego, .........., solemniter promitto, me, quoties in Bibliothecam huius Collegii venire contigerit, libros caeteramque Bibliothecae supellectilem sic tractaturam, ut superesse quam diutissime possint. Promitto etiam quod neque ipse librum aliquem asportabo, sponte corrumpam, interscribam, aut alio quovis modo abutar nec ab aliis haec fieri, quantum in me est, permittam. Quae omnia singula et omnia Bibliothecae statuta, quae ad me attinent, me fideliter observaturam promitto et spondeo.



By clicking on the link below you are agreeing to abide by the declaration above and the Library Regulations as listed in the College Calendar (Section H, Paragraphs 77 - 79).