Preble County District Library

Circulation Policy

Loan Periods and Limits for Materials

A photo I.D. with birthdate and a current utility bill with the current address is required to receive a library card. Parents are held responsible for minors under the age of 18 years. Patrons are limited to 50 items/card. New card holders are limited to 3 items for their first borrowed items. Educator Cards are available for Teachers and Homeschoolers Only with proof of educator status.

    Materials that check out for three weeks (21 days) are:

    • Books
    • Movies*
    • Music
    • Magazines (unless they are current issues in some branches)
    • Kits
    • Playaways
    • Puppets, puzzles, toys

    *Except Branch Loan fiction movies -see below

    3 day loan materials are:

    • Branch Loan fiction movies (limited to 5 per borrower/day) Come back the next day and take out 5 more.

    42 calendar day circulating items include:

    • Any monograph or audio material used in the classroom or through outreach and borrowed on an educators or outreach card.

    Non-circulating items include:

    • Reference materials
    • Microforms
    • Historical reference materials
    • Current issues of magazines (depending on which branch)

    Renewing Items

    If you want to keep an item longer it can be renewed.

    • Materials can be renewed three times by phone or online.

    Only the following materials cannot be renewed:

    • If someone else has requested it (on hold)
    • Holiday materials

    Fines: Charges are levied for each day open for business by the branch from where the material was borrowed.

  • Fines are 10 cents/day on each material item.
  • A patron that has $5.00 or more fines on their card will not be able to check out more materials until the fines are paid.
  • When a child reaches the age of 18, past fines on their card are removed and placed on their care-giver's card. They may begin as an adult with no fines.
  • Bounced checks cost the library $10.00/item. This fine cannot be waived.
  • Lost or unreturned materials will be charged for the cost of that material. When payment has not been made for unreturned items for over a month, a collection agency will recover the cost for the library. Even if the material is recovered there is a charge for the work of the collection agency. This fine cannot be waived.
  • Fines for current staff and members of the Board of Trustees are waived.
  • Fines are waived for educators using the materials in the classroom .

    • Damaged Materials

    • Fines will be collected to repair damaged materials.