CIRCULATION
Loan periods are as follows:
Museum passes: One day
Videos, DVDs, and magazines: One week (seven days)
All other circulating material: three weeks (twenty-one days)
The loan period for materials borrowed from other libraries (interlibrary loans) varies with the lending library. The Bolton Public Library will not absorb fines or fees incurred by its users for overdue, lost, or missing Interlibrary Loan material. Individual borrowers are responsible for their own fines and fees, if any.
Borrowers must present their cards when checking out library materials. Borrowers may not use the cards of others not present.
Each household may borrow six videotapes/DVDs (any combination) at a time, a maximum of three of which may be marked NEW.
No borrower may check out all of the library’s material on a single subject at one time.
Borrowers are limited to one “claims returned” message attached to his/her record. This includes “claims returned” at other libraries. Borrowers must return or pay for materials subsequently claimed returned.
Reference books do not circulate unless the Director gives permission.
All materials except for museum passes may be renewed once. Renewals may be completed in person, remotely by personal computer, or by telephone when the library is open. Renewals may not be permitted on interlibrary loan books or on items for which other(s) are waiting.
To reserve material, the library user must ask a staff member to hold the material or put his/her name on a waiting list. Notification that reserved material has arrived will be by telephone unless the user has requested notification by another means. The library staff assumes no responsibility for telephone or other messages within a user’s home.
Material will be held at the circulation desk for seven business days after notification. On the eighth day, it will either be shelved, or the next person on the reserve list will be notified of its availability.
Materials whose due date is past are subject to overdue notices. Notices will be mailed in accordance with C/W MARS practices.
In accordance with Massachusetts law, library users may be billed for library materials which are thirty days past their due date, lost, or damaged. The Director will send the user a letter detailing the missing material and an itemized list of charge(s). The Director may request the immediate return of the material or payment of the bill. Until the matter is settled, the library user is barred from checking out any more library material (including museum passes) throughout the C/W MARS system.
Every bill issued by the Bolton Public Library will include a nonrefundable billing/processing fee of $3.
The Library charges no overdue fines for its own material. The Library staff acts on the premise that the return of materials, in good condition, is preferable to the collection of fines. However, the Library does offer a “conscience box” in which users who received overdue notices may elect to deposit 25 cents (or more) to cover the cost of postage.
Materials borrowed from other libraries via Interlibrary Loan are subject to fines and fees imposed by the lending library. Bolton Public Library will not absorb the cost of such fines and fees if caused by the individual borrower; in such cases the individual borrower is responsible for making restitution to the loaning library.
The Library staff will include in the delivery bag any materials returned here but borrowed from other libraries in Massachusetts. However, if those library materials are late, the individual borrower and not Bolton Library will pay any overdue fees or fines imposed by the lending library.
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