Library Cards
Library cards are available to patrons at no cost. To obtain your card, please bring a piece of your latest mail with your current name and address canceled by the United States Postal Service. New residents unable to provide this information will be eligible for a library guest card so they may check out no more than one item at any one visit. Guest status will be changed upon proof of address. To replace a lost or damaged card, the patron must pay a $5 fee to obtain another card. Children under 12 must be accompanied by a parent or a guardian to obtain a card. The parent or guardian must present his or her own identification and agree to pay for any materials damaged or lost. You may check out 2 items the first time you use your card. After that you may check out up to 20 items with families borrowing no more than 20 items. This limit may be increased during summer reading programs. The following limits apply to the totals mentioned: only 2 non-fiction books on one subject 3 books by the same author or two books about the same person 10 magazines 8 videos and 10 audio books.
Library Materials & Services
Library materials include: books large print books books for the blind magazines video materials audio materials and genealogy materials. Services include: free computer and Internet access Wifi copying and printing and the summer reading program. If this library does not have what you want in its collection, it may be available through the state-wide inter-library loan system. If so, you may order it. Any library patron with a valid library card may request materials on inter-library loan. Reference books and other reference materials are available for use at the library, but they do not circulate. The loan period for books is two weeks with one renewal, unless the book is new fiction or a best seller. Audio and video materials may also be checked out for two weeks, but these materials may not be renewed.
Library Computers, Wifi, and Internet Access
Wifi is available at this library. You may bring your own properly configured laptop to the library and access Internet service. The public may also use computers with Internet access located within the library. Computer time is assigned in 45 minute sessions permitting patrons only one such session a day. The computers with Internet access are also loaded with word processing applications. A patron may send pages or files to the library's printer from the public computers for printing. Printing will not be able via the wireless connection. Instruction in computer use and disks or other storage materials will not be provided.
There are other computers for children with Internet access, which are also loaded with children's applications. Children 3 years of age or under are not allowed to use the computers. Children 8 years of age or under may use one of two children's computers in the Children's Room, but must be accompanied by a parent or a guardian at all times. Children 9-11 may use an Internet computer in the Children's Room, if a parent or a guardian is present in the library. The Internet access adult computers are located in a quiet room to insure patrons can work undisturbed by others. Children 12 or older may use the computers in the quiet room. Only one person may use a computer in the quiet room at a time. A computer in the Children's Room may be available if someone has brought another with them to assist them with computer use.
