Library

Baji Association maintains a library containing material of interest to the association's activities. Members of the association may loan material from the library following the rules below. The association may purchase new material according to the members' wishes and the economical situation. Donations to the library are welcome provided they are related to our field of interest. You may also give a publication you own to be loaned through the library without donating it to the library permanently.

Download the library listing (pdf).

Download a short listing of the contents of the T'ai Chi Magazines in the library (txt).

Librarian

The library is maintained and loans and reservations are handled by Janne Nieminen, library(at)baji.info. The publications donated or purchased to the library are kept at Janne's home and he also handles the loans and reservations of the publications given to the library's use but owned by others.

Baji Association, Library Rules (23.9.2009)

§1 Only members of the association are allowed to loan material from the library. Members may use the library by asking to loan or reserve a publication by sending email to the librarian. Loans are also possible immediately for new members who have paid the membership fee and provided their personal information to the membership registry.

§2 The loan period is at most 4 weeks. Longer loans may be possible if agreed with the librarian, provided there are no reservations for the publication. The time and method of returning publications may be negotiated with the librarian if necessary.

§3 The librarian maintains a list of publications in the library as well as a list of reservations and loans, indicating the loaned publication, the loan date, full contact information of the loaner as well as the return date. An up-to-date version of the library listing will be kept available on the library web page.

§4 If a publication loaned from the library is destroyed or lost the loaner is responsible for compensating for the full value of the loss or purchasing a new equivalent publication if possible.

§5 Publications loaned from the library may not be loaned to a third party (outside the loaners family) without written permission from the librarian.