Joining

• Membership is free
• You may join online
• Personal identification with your current address is required
• Signature and proof of address of parent or guardian is required for under 18s
• Additional enrolment required for Internet access

Borrowing

• Your library card is needed each time you borrow.
• Loan periods are:
  
  • Books 4 weeks
    
  • DVDs/Videos 2 weeks
    
  • Magazines 2 weeks
• You may borrow from any of the library's branches
• You must pay for any lost or damaged items lent on your card

Returning

• Items can be returned at any branch
• Items may be renewed twice, in person, by phone, or from our website as long as the items have not been reserved by another person
• Libraries have an after-hours return chute.

Reservations

• If the title you want is on loan or held at another Mitchell Library branch you may reserve it either at the desk, online or via the OPUS-the public catalogue terminal.
  To reserve online or via the OPUS you need your library member number from the back of your library card, use the numbers after the 33/. If your number ends in an "A" please put in a hyphen "-" instead. You will also need a pin number which is the last four digits of your home phone number.
• If we do not own the title required, we can either purchase it or borrow it from another library service. A charge of $1.10 per title is payable at the time of reservation.

Activities

• Rhyme Time for Babies & Toddlers:
  
  • Broadford - Tuesday morning - 1.30pm
  • Kilmore - Thursday morning -10.30am
  • Romsey- Wednesday -10.30am
  • Seymour - Monday morning -11.30am
  • Wallan - Wednesday  morning - 10.30am

   

• Pre-school Storytimes:
  • Kilmore - Wednesday morning - 9.15am & 10.15am
  • Romsey- Tuesday & Thursday -10.30am
  • Seymour - Friday morning -10.30am
  • Wallan - Friday  morning - 10.30am

   

• Kids' Reading Club - Book Nuts for 7-10 years old
  • Wallan - Fourth Monday each month at 4-5pm

   

• Introductory tours for classroom and community groups

Homebound

• A homebound service is offered for library members who are not able to visit a library branch to choose items themselves. The library items are selected by library staff and delivered by volunteers or, if this is not possible, some other arrangement can be made. 
• Information such as reading preferences, their home situation, advice for volunteers who deliver the books (e.g. if there is a big dog in the backyard) and what has previously been borrowed is kept for each homebound member.
• This service is available from any library branch.

Charges

• Fines for overdue items 10c per day
• Replacement library card $2.20
• Lost/damaged items at replacement cost + $5
• Computer printing & Photocopying  per page

  	Black & White	Colour
  A4	20c	$1.50
  A3	30c	$2.00

• Faxes
  • Local - $2.20 per page
  • STD - $3.30 per page
  • International - $5.50 per page
  • Incoming - $0.55 per page

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  Last updated 13/06/2008