Borrowing Explained
Ways to Borrow
- Customers may borrow physical material via checkout at any BCLS Location
- Customers may borrow 35 items per card
- Customers may borrow items via Library by Mail or the Mobile Library
- Customers may borrow books, audiobooks, and magazines via Libby and Overdrive.
Borrowing Guide
| Borrowed Material | Loan Period | Max. Allowed for Borrowing |
Renewal Limit | Daily Overdue Fine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Books, music, magazines, CD audiobooks | 28 Days | 35 items or less | 2 | No Fines |
| DVDs & Video Games | 1 week | DVDs: 7 Video Games: 2 |
2 | No Fines |
| Digital Collection on Overdrive/Libby | 7, 14, or 21 days | 10 | No limits | No Fines |
| Interlibrary Loan (ILL) | 21 days | 3 | No renewals | 25ยข |
| Technology on Loan (mobile hotspots, tablets, Chromebooks, Launchpads) | 3 weeks | 3 | 1 renewal for 2 weeks | No Fines |
| Museum Passes | 3 days | 1 | No renewals | $25 |
| Borrow a Book Club Bags | 8 weeks | 1 | No renewals | $1 |
| Classroom Kits | 6 Weeks | 1 | No renewals | $1 |
Requesting Items
- Up to 35 requests may be placed on items found in the Library Catalog
- These may be requested in person, by telephone, or online.
- You will be notified by phone, email, or text message when the hold is available; they are only held for 5 days.
- Up to 10 items may be reserved in the Overdrive & Libby
- Customers may request items via Library by Mail
Service Fees
- Items borrowed through Interlibrary Loan are subject to a $3.00 service fee per item
- Items borrowed through Library by Mail are subject to $1.00 service fee per item