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About The Library Free use of The Library is given to residents of Boyd, Greenup, and Lawrence counties in Kentucky, Lawrence County in Ohio, and Wayne and Cabell Counties in West Virginia. All others pay a non-resident fee of $27 per year. Non-resident students pay an annual fee of $5.
As a patron borrowing items from the Boyd County Public Library, you have these responsibilites:
You are responsible for any items borrowed on you library card. Do not lend your card to anyone. We assume the person presenting a card is the cardholder unless it has been reported lost or stolen. To prevent unauthorized use, report a lost or stolen card immediately. Lost or stolencards may be replaced with proper identification. The fee for a replacement card is $1. New leading policies, which went into effect in October 2004, put all library materials into one of two categories: 7-Day items or 2-Week items, and set consistent fines for overdue items. Fines for overdue 7-Day items are $1 per day beginning with the first day overdue. Items in the 2-Week category include: fiction and non-fiction books, large print materials, non-fiction movies, magazines and children's read-along music. Fines for these items are 15 cents per day beginning with the first day overdue. Patrons can no longer renew 7-Day items. And there are no grace periods on any items. Some loan limits will also change. Patrons can borrow a total of 50 items on a card at any one time. Individual item limits are: movies, 5; compact disc music, 5; art prints, 5; CD-Rom software, 5; audio books, 10; and magazines, 10. The remaining items can be in books to equal a maximum of 50 items. The fee for resident of counties without reciprocal agreements will be $27. The previous fee, $15, had been the same for 20 years. The higher fee is in line with what Boyd County residents pay in property taxes for library services. College students who are not residents of Boyd or a reciprocal county but who attend school in one of those counties can get a library card for $5. Patrons can pick up brochures summarizing the new policies at the Main, Catlettsburg or Summit branches. The policies are also viewable on the Web site: click here to view it. Note: The policy manual is in .pdf format, so you'll need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it. If you don't have this software on your computer, don't fret -- it's free! Click here to download your free copy of the Acrobat Reader.
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To
receive library cards, all patrons must provide proof-of-residence
in the form of a driver's license, current utility bill, printed
checks, etc. There is a limit of three items for first time checkout.
Children (ages 3-16) must have a parent's signature to obtain a
library card. Parents are responsible for all materials borrowed
on their child's library card and must pay all fines or other charges
incurred by their child. 
due
date, or pay accumulated fines.
Entertainment
movies (DVD or VHS), compact disc music, art prints and (circulating)
CD-Rom software can be checked out for seven days at a time. Movies,
for example, had to be back in two days under the old policy.
Library
cards are still issued free to residents of Boyd County and those
counties with reciprocal agreements (Greenup and Lawrence, Ky.;
Lawrence, Ohio; and Cabell and Wayne, W.Va.). The cost of a replacement
card is going up to $2 from $1.