Petitions protesting the early closing of the University Library were posted yesterday in Sever and Harvard Halls, after permission had been given on Monday by A. C. Hanford, Dean of Harvard College, to a committee distributing the position.

It was pointed out last night by University authorities that the permission given by Dean Hanford did not show a change of policy on the part of the University, since the previous ban had applied to official notice boards alone, and not to the public bulletin boards. It was also said that the official notice boards are rarely used for anything but officials notices, because of a University ruling to that effect.

The circulars posted beside the petitions in Harvard and Sever Halls were similar to those already posted in the Houses with the exception that they contain no reference to the new Memorial Church or to the floodlighting of Lowell House.