With so many government and local authority cuts, we are at risk of loosing many local services. Our libraries are included among them. What can we do to help?

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The library as a non-profit making and indispensable source of information has important functions to perform in the society. But for it to function effectively, the users are expected to behave in a way that would not run contrary to the rules and regulation of the library. Some of these anti- social behaviors include mutilation of books, noise, fighting, smoking etc. One of the worst anti –social act in the library is mutilation. Mutilation use to render books unusable. According to Phillip Mark (1998), “mutilation accounts up to 95% of anti-social act done in the library”. Readers who need these books either for their own private reading or for research are deprived of this natural rights and oppournity of availing themselves of the information contained therein (in the torn –off pages). Such anti- social behavior equally incurs unnecessary and avoidable expenses of replacing the book.