Room Use

Food and Drink

Covered drinks and food are permitted in the library. Please keep food away from library computers and dispose of trash responsibly.

Room Reservations / Bookings

Group Study Rooms

Study Rooms B, C, & F are for current Rivier Students only.  Study Rooms B and F are available for individuals or small group work, Group Study Room C  is for a group of two or more students.

As there is high demand for a limited number of group study rooms, reservations may be monitored for appropriate academic use. Reservation/room use privileges may be modified at the discretion of library staff. Group study rooms are intended for individual or collaborative group study work and are not intended for seminars, classes, club meetings, office hours, drop-in meetings, or other extra-curricular activities.

  • Rooms can be reserved/booked online or in person at the main desk on the first floor of the library.
  • Room keys must be checked out from the main desk to unlock and access Study Rooms B, C & F. 
  • If you finish using a group study before your scheduled time, please bring the room key to the main desk so that others may use the room.

Group Study Policies

  • Study Rooms B and F are for use by one or more current Rivier students. 
  • Group Study Room C is for use by two or more current Rivier students. 
  • Individuals may book Study Rooms B or F a maximum of two times per week and a maximum of two hours per day. 
  • Groups of two or more students may book study rooms a maximum of two times per week and a maximum of four hours per day. 
  • Reservations may be made up to 30 days in advance. 
  • Room reservations will be held for 15 minutes after their scheduled start time, after which, if no member of the group checks in, the reservation will be forfeited, and the room will be available to others.
  • Single occupants in Group Study C whose group does not arrive within 15 minutes of the start of the reservation will need to forfeit the room. 
  • Single occupants in Study Rooms B & F whose group does not arrive in 15 minutes will have their time reverted to the two-hour maximum limit for single occupants. 
  • There is a $1 per hour fine for an overdue group study key. 
  • Study Room Keys must not be removed from the building. 
  • If you need to leave the building and plan to return within 15 minutes, leave the key at the Main Desk. 
  • If you need to leave the building for longer than 15 minutes, please remove your personal belongings and return the key. The room reservation will be forfeited. 
  • Study Room users must clean up the area, erase the whiteboard, and generally leave the room in good condition for the next users. 
  • To use the room at your reserved time, you must check out a study room key at the main desk. 
  •  Please lock the door with the key when you leave the study room.  Return the key to the main desk. 
  • Personal items may not be left behind to hold/reserve an area or room. 
  • Improper use of the booking system or study rooms may result in modified study room use privileges. 

Quiet Study: Individuals and/or groups may not reserve the Quiet Study room. Please refrain from conversation or other sounds while in Quiet Study.

Areas that do not require a reservation

  • Group Studies A, D, and E, open study areas, sitting areas.
  • Reference Room tables and sitting areas.
  • Study carrels in the book stacks.
  • Quiet Study, Reading Room, and in the book stacks study carrels.
  • The Conference Room is for use by Library staff and Doctoral students.
    • Students (Doctoral or others) may not reserve this room in advance. Group Study Rooms are available for advance reservation by individual students (Rooms B & F) or groups of two or more (Rooms B, C & F).
    • On occasion, and with the Library Director’s permission, the room may be used by faculty.
    • More than one Doctoral student or group of Doctoral students is allowed to use the room at the same time.

Content Creation Center

The new Content Creation Center provides a small but powerful multimedia recording “studio” that allows users to create a variety of content. Using our state-of-the-art recording equipment, green screens, and editing software, faculty and students can create a wide range of multimedia content for lessons, assignments and/or projects.  

  • Reservations, which can be booked online here, are only allowed for specific use of the Content Creation Center.
  • This space may be reserved for up to two hours.
  • The space is available 30 minutes after we open until 30 minutes before we close.
  • When not reserved for Content Creation, this space is available as an open study on a first-come, first-served basis. Please do not reserve this space as a general study room.

Electronic Classroom

  • 23 computers are available in the Electronic Classroom (e-room).
  • Library staff may, at any time, request that the room be vacated for instructional use as needed by faculty or library staff. Library staff has priority use of the e-room.
  • Library staff and faculty may reserve the e-room for instructional purposes. Faculty may schedule the e-room in advance by contacting library staff; however, the e-room may not be used in place of the classroom assigned by the registrar. The e-room is reserved on a first-come-first-served basis.
  • The e-room is equipped with an instructor’s station including a PC. Instructors are encouraged to verify in advance that any software and/or additional media equipment that they may need is available for their scheduled session.
  • Students may not reserve the e-room. Students are welcome to use computers in the e-room when it is not reserved. The instructor’s station is not available to students.
  • When using the e-room for a reserved session, all participants need to log on using their own Rivier account.
  • A weekly schedule of room reservation times is posted on the e-room door.

 

Quiet and Conversation Areas

Communications that are loud or raucous, or may be construed as offensive or obscene are not acceptable in the library.

Electronic Classroom

  • Moderate levels of conversation are acceptable in this room. This is not a quiet area.

Group Study Rooms

  • Moderate levels of conversation are acceptable in group study rooms. Multiple study groups may converse in this room at one time.
  • Moderate sound from television viewing is acceptable. Headphones are encouraged and available for check out at the circulation desk.

Quiet Study

  • Please refrain from conversation or other sounds in Quiet Study.
  • Music devices should not be used without earphones and the volume should be set so as not to be heard by others.

Reference Room

  • Normal levels of conversation are acceptable in this room.
  • Multiple study groups may converse in this room at one time.
  • Library staff may converse as they provide assistance to users.

Reading Room

  • Quieter/whisper levels of conversation are acceptable in this room.
  • Multiple study groups may converse in this room at one time.

Conference Room

  • Moderate levels of conversation are acceptable in this room.