MORRISON AND MARY WILEY LIBRARY LOST, DAMAGED OR OVERDUE BOOKS POLICY

6/05/06

 

            The Morrison and Mary Wiley Library Board of  Trustees is invested with the specific power under the Public Library Act to provide, by ordinance, fines and penalties for injury to any book or other library material or to any real or personal property belonging to or in the custody of the library and for failure to return any book or other material or personal property belonging to or in the custody of the library and to exclude from the use of the library any person who willfully violates the rules prescribed by the Library Board of Trustees.  The purpose of this policy is to prevent, discourage and prohibit the injury to any book or library material or property, real or personal and the failure to return any book or library material or property to the library.  Therefore, the policy of the Morrison and Mary Wiley Library is as follows:

 

            Materials borrowed from the Morrison and Mary Wiley Library are the responsibility of the library patron who checked out the item.

 

            Replacement cost (not original purchase price) is the responsibility of the patron who borrows and loses or damages any library material.  In the case of children under the age of 18, it is the responsibility of the parent to pay for lost or damaged items.

 

            The following schedule of terms applies:

 

1.       Retail replacement cost of any item which is lost or damaged beyond repair.

 

2.       All items lent out by the library includes:  hard bound books, soft bound books, audio books, videos, CD ROM products.

 

3.       Materials borrowed through Inter Library Loan which are lost or damaged are charged to the patron according to the bill provided by the lending library.

 

            Until restitution is made for the lost or damaged library material, library privileges are revoked.