1.  You may borrow books, audio books, compact discs, videos and DVDs if you can provide  evidence of your name and address.

2.  You must sign a form agreeing not to break the Library Rules.  Until you reach your 12th birthday you will need the signature of a responsible adult. Then we will give you your library card.

3.  If you want to use the Internet you must be a member of the library and you must agree to accept our Internet users' policy.  Visitors to Derby must sign a form agreeing to accept our Internet users' policy.

4.  You must bring your library card with you if you want to borrow from the library or use the Internet.

5.  If someone else uses your library card to borrow anything or to use the Internet, you may have to pay for any loss or damage.

6.  Let the library staff know at once if your library card is stolen.

7.  Let the library staff know if you change your address.

8.  If you lose your library card, you may have to pay for a new one.

9.  You may keep a book or audio book for 28 days.
You may keep a compact disc for seven days.
You may keep a DVD for three nights.
If you use a mobile library you may keep any item until the next visit of the library.

At the end of this time you may renew books and audio books if another library user does not want them.  If you want to keep CDs and DVDs longer you may pay another hire charge.

You may not keep anything you have borrowed for more than six months.

10.  Until you reach your 12th birthday, you may borrow a total of 10 items but only two of them can be DVDs, videos or CDs.  When you first join the library you may only take out two items during the first month.

If you are 12 or over, you may borrow a total of 20 items, but only four of them can be DVDs or videos.  When you first join the library you may only take out four items during the first month.

11.  If you have a library card you may ask for a book, audio book, CD, or video to be found and kept for you.  If we can find it we will let you know and we will keep it for you at the library for ten days.  You may have to pay for this.

12.  If you keep anything you have borrowed for too long we may charge you.  You can see the scale of charges in every library.

13.  When you  take what you have borrowed back to the library,  make sure a member of the library staff takes it from you so we know you have returned it.

14.  There is no charge for borrowing books.  You may have to pay to borrow audio books, CDs, DVDs and videos.

15.  If anything is damaged while you have it, you may have to pay for a repair.  If we cannot repair it you may have to pay for a new one.

16.  If you lose anything which you have borrowed, you may have to pay to replace it.

17. If you or anyone you come into contact with suffers from any of the listed diseases you must not borrow or pass on to someone else any library book, audio book, CD, DVD or video.  Do not return anything you have borrowed to the library.

Instead, you must telephone the library you borrowed the item from for further advice..  If you don't, you are breaking the law and the City Council can take action under the Public Health (Control of Diseases) Act 1984.

The diseases are cholera, plague, relapsing fever, smallpox, typhus, rabies, viral haemorrhagic fever, infectious tuberculosis of the respiratory tract.

18.  These rules come under the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964.

19. If you break any of these rules we may stop you from using any library.

October 2003

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