Library Policies

These policies will inform the library's calendar hours of operation each year. It will also be the bases for determining the cost of providing library services.

General Policies:

• The library will open on all days when classes are held on the main campus.
• The University’s Academic Calendars will be consulted before determining dates.
• Once the hours and exceptions have been established and published they should not be changed.
• Library hours will be posted:
  • On the front of and inside the library.
  • Online at http://library.hiu.edu/about/hours.

The library will be closed or operate with modified hours as follows:

CLOSED:
- University-observed Holidays when no classes are held.
- Commencement
- Breaks in the Academic Calendar when no classes are held on campus such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and Spring Breaks. 

Modified Hours
- On Staff Holidays when classes are held on campus such as Labor Day.
- On days when classes are dismissed for events such as Faculty In-Services.

Exceptions to general policies:
- The library may open regular or modified hours on a day prior to first day students return to campus after a long break such as Spring Break.

Regular Hours begin on the first Friday of Traditional Undergraduate semesters and ends the last day of finals week.

Sunday - 5:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Monday through Thursday - 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM
Friday - 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Saturday - closed

CLOSED Tuesday and Thursday 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM for Small Group meetings and Chapel.

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