How My Library Card Works

Lending Periods

  • DVDs: 1 week
  • Toddler Totes: 1 week
  • Magazines: 1 week
  • All other items: 3 weeks

Renewal Limits

  • All items may be renewed up to 3 times except in these cases:
    • The item is a new book
    • The item has been requested by someone else and there are less than two copies available for checkout

Total Item Limits per Card

  • Resident cards: 50 items
  • Taxpayer cards: 50 items
  • Fee cards: 50 items
  • CARE cards: 25 items from Children’s and/or Young Adult collections
  • Basic cards: 10 items

Checkout Limits by Item Type

  • Books: 50 maximum
  • DVDs: 10 maximum
  • Magazines: 10 maximum
  • CDs: 10 maximum
  • Audiobooks on CD: 10 maximum
  • Toddler Totes: 2 maximum

Hold Limits

  • Full-service cards: 25 holds
  • Basic cards: 10 holds

Daily Fines

  • Children’s books: .15 per day +
  • All other materials: .25 per day

+ Children 12 and younger may reduce their library fines by $1 for every library program they attend and/or every 30 minutes they read in the library. See Read to Reduce (link to 1.1) for more information.