Libraries 1, band 0.

That’s the score today after the Stanford band agreed to back down from a traditional run through the libraries the night before spring finals begin — tonight.

“The band has a dishonorable history of misbehaving in the libraries,” said library communications director Andrew Herkovic, speaking on behalf of University librarian Michael Keller on Wednesday. “The University library wants no part of it.”

According to LSJUMB spokesman Jeremy Cohn ’10, band staff met with Keller last Monday to ask for permission to rock in Green, Meyer and the 24-hour Meyer study room tonight.

“He said he didn’t think it was appropriate,” Cohn said. “We’ll respect their wishes at this point.”

Herkovic made the terms of the ban more clear: “The University librarian has forbidden the band from gathering as a group within the library.”

The purpose of the traditional romp, which included stops at the Tresidder Lair and Old Union, is “to lighten the mood” ahead of finals, said Cohn, speaking from the Band Shak, where a sign taped to a computer read, “We have librarians?”

Planning to play two songs at each stop, he said, the band hoped to remind students: “You’re still at Stanford. Things are still awesome.”

The so-called “library rally” has taken place since at least 2007, when Cohn was a freshman.

But it wasn’t all good, Herkovic said.

“There have been incidences of vandalism associated with band visits, and we resent that,” Herkovic said, declining to specify what sort of damage the band may have caused. Cohn said he didn’t know of any.

Herkovic said individual students who are band members are still welcome in the libraries, which are “supposed to be the place where you have the privilege of privacy and quiet.”

But as a group, Herkovic said, “they are expressly instructed not to congregate, not to aggregate and they will be asked to leave if they do.”

“We will treat this as a significant misbehavior,” he continued. “It ain’t right, and they shouldn’t do it.”

He said library staffers are under standing orders to call the police if there is a disturbance in a library they can’t control.

Deputy Al James of the Stanford Department of Public Safety said arrests or citations would be unlikely if the band were involved in such a scenario. While trespassing and disturbing the peace are both misdemeanors, “in reality, I’ve never seen anything like that happen with the band,” said James, who has been on the job at Stanford for 18 years.

“If we get a call, we’ll send police officers out there, they’ll talk to the people,” he said. “The band, they’re rowdy…but they’re not stupid.”

Cohn said all festivities planned for today are off, and that the staff would seek permission to rally in the library next year.