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Additional policies can be found here. Loan Periods and Renewals
Newspapers, current magazines and microforms are for in-house use only. Items placed on hold by another patron cannot be renewed. Materials can be renewed by visiting the library, via phone and by using the MyAccount feature on PrairieCat. Enter your library card number and PIN which is the last four digits of your library card number. Notices, Fines and FeesLibrary delivers courtesy and overdue notices to patrons who check out materials: a courtesy reminder notice 3 days before materials are due; an overdue notice 7 days after materials are due; and a second overdue notice 14 days after materials are due. The method of delivery of notices is a patron by patron decision. Email and/or phone number must be provided by patrons. To avoid fees, borrowers should return or renew materials before the due date. The library is a fine free library for patrons with Seneca library cards. Daily fines will not be collected for materials owned by the library, except for items in the Library of Things collection. Library patrons are responsible for all materials charged to their accounts. If overdue materials are not returned or renewed within 21 days of the due date, the material will be considered lost, an invoice issued and the patron’s account blocked. If overdue materials are returned, replacement costs are waived. This fee also applies to materials damaged while in the patron’s possession. Payment receipts are available upon request. Gifts and DonationsThe library welcomes and appreciates gifts and donations of library materials, cash, securities, furnishings, equipment, objects of art or real property. These gifts help enrich and improve the library’s resources. • Any gifts or donations to the library must be consistent with the library’s policies, goals and objectives. • All gifted and donated materials become property of the library. • Books and other collection materials are judged by the same standards of selection as those applied to the purchase of new items. The decision as to the acceptance of collection materials shall be made by the Library Director. • The decision as to the acceptance of cash, securities, furnishings, equipment, objects of art or real property shall be made by the Library Board of Trustees on the advice of the Library Director. Among the criteria on which the decision shall be based are need and cost of maintenance. • It is the library’s custom to expend cash gifts on materials, equipment, or a project which is acceptable to the donor. Donors may request that monies be spent in a certain area. • Gifts are accepted with the understanding that it may someday be necessary that they should be sold or disposed in any way the library sees fit. The library cannot commit itself to perpetually housing a donation. • The library has the right to reject donations. Although it is unlikely, there may be an occasion in which the restrictions set by the donor make it impossible for the library to accept the contribution. • For memorial books, the library may place within the book the name of the donor, or the individual for whom it is a remembrance for. • Accepted gifts are honored in the gift remembrance book. Balloons: 3″ $100.00; 4″ $250.00; 5″ $500.00. Minimum $1,000.00 donation would receive a line in the Big Book. Each donation would merit a plate with a name and amount of donation. • The library does not place a value on gifts for tax purposes, nor does it supply an itemized list of donated items. An acknowledgment letter is provided to the donor upon request Displays and ExhibitsThe library welcomes displays of general interest to the community as well as materials having a direct relationship to the purposes of the library. Displays may be used at the discretion of the Director. All materials displayed in the library will be given reasonable care and protection within the limits of the general operation of the library, but the library and the Board do not assume responsibility for damage or loss suffered on its premises, nor for the costs of insurance coverage. Such costs, losses, damages, etc., are understood to be the responsibility of the organization or individual providing the display or exhibit. A signed statement of insurance coverage must be provided when the display is established; or, if it is uninsured, a statement releasing the library from responsibility should be signed. |
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