A bat interrupted students in the library on Tuesday night.

The animal flew into Mossey Library’s Heritage Room just after 8 p.m. It took several laps around the room until several men ushered the bat through the doorway.

“I was working, and then, all of a sudden, I hear screaming and I turn around,” said senior Abigail Yi, who was working at the reference desk. “I was like, ‘There shouldn’t be screaming coming from the Heritage Room.’ And then several people run out, and then the bat flies out.”

When the bat left the Heritage Room, it landed behind the reference desk on the wall above the printers, Yi said. At that point, Yi went to Library Director Maurine McCourry, who called security.

Before security could arrive, however, sophomore Jude Doer stepped in to remove the animal.

“I’ve seen videos of people catching things,” Doer said. “I just caught him in a sweatshirt.”

Doer said he made sure the bat did not bite him. He said he grew up around animals and has never feared bats.

“I just didn’t want to hurt the bat,” Doer said.

He took the bat outside, where he set it free.

McCourry said bats are an issue in the library.

“It comes and goes. My predecessor actually had a box on a stick, and he would go catch the bats,” McCourry said. “But I don’t really want to go catch them.”