Policies
1. Borrowing Policy
2. Overdue Fine Policy
3. Computer/Internet Policy
4. Printing Policy
Borrowing Policy
The loan period for most of our library material is 3 weeks.
The loan period for DVDs and Circulating Reference Books is 1 week.
Overdue items are assessed a late fee. All items should be returned on the day that they are due before closing times.
There is a LIMIT of 5 items per card on the following items:
- Audio Books on Cassette or CD
- Videos
- DVDs
- Music CDs
- Children's computer software
- Adult computer software
- Non-Fiction books per subject
If no library in the Allegheny County system owns the item for which you are looking, you can fill out a yellow slip at the front desk to request that we consider purchasing the item for our collection, or you can fill out a blue Inter-Library Loan slip to request the book from a library outside the eiNetwork consortium. There is no fee for this, but remember that you must have a library card to borrow any materials from the library.
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Overdue Fine Policy
All items should be returned on the day that they are due before closing times. Fines will be assessed as follows:
50¢ per day - For Videos, DVD's and CD ROM's
25¢ per day - Adult materials in the library
10¢ per day - Children's material in the library
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Computer/Internet Policy
You MUST have a valid library card in order to access the computers. Enter your library card number in the space provided to log on.
Valuable local, national, and international sources of information can be accessed through the Internet. Whitehall Public Library neither monitors nor controls this information. Users of the Internet must evaluate the validity of the information.
In compliance with the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), all Whitehall Public Library computer terminals will be filtered. CIPA requires that access be blocked to sites that are obscene, contain child pornography or are harmful to minors within the meaning of applicable sections of Title 18 U.S. Code. The filtering will also help ensure that access is blocked to sites that are illegal, obscene, or sexually explicit within the meaning of 18 PA. Cons. Stat., Sec. 5903. Any adult (age 17 or older) may request that the filter be disabled without significant delay by an authorized staff member. A parent/guardian may request the filter be disabled for a child (age 16 or younger) in the event that the filter blocks a legitimate site.
Material that is deemed inappropriate will not be tolerated, and can result in permanent loss of Internet privileges at the Whitehall Public Library.
The Library reserves the right to end an Internet session, to designate computers for a specific purpose, to set time limits, and to require registration with a valid library card or driver's license.
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Printing Policy
All black & white copies that are printed from the Internet are 10 cents per page.
Color printouts are $1.00 per page
We recommend usage of a flash drive to save work done on the PC at the library. PCs have a DVD/CD Read/Write drive available. Customers can save files on the desktop however these files will be deleted at the close of the library day for your security. Software can not be downloaded to the computers.
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