There were restrictions set up outside these shelves as protection. If one stretched his hand out, an introduction to the secret techniques within would be displayed—for example, whether they were cultivation techniques or martial arts techniques, what grade they were, of what Elemental alignment they were, and so on.
More importantly, you'd also know how many academic credits was needed to redeem them.
If you had enough academic credits, then you could immediately spend your academic credits to dissolve the restriction to read through them. Furthermore, you would be allowed to undergo comprehension here for ten days. However, if you still wanted to continue comprehension after the ten days, you would have to spend academic credits again, though the amount would be halved.
This would also give one enough motivation to make as much use of time as possible.