Lend Us Your Books!

If you’re like us, storage is at a premium – and the music, books, and movies you once hoarded for years are now being replaced by iPods, downloadable books, and Netflix. If you’re like us, you also don’t like the idea of gently-read books and once-played DVDs and CDs just going away. For many of us, the books we hold on to are reference books we look at once in a blue moon, but they are important when we want them. The music suits just the right mood, which perhaps comes along once a year. And the films, while fabulous and significant, only require a watching every so often.

What if there was a way to clear some clutter and be certain the books, music, and movies were available pretty much when you wanted them?

Consider loaning them to the Round Lake Library through our new Permanent Loan Program! We need to stock the new Malta Community Center branch that is opening this fall, and while there is some funding available to purchase books, your loan of like-new or nearly-new books, DVDs, and music CDs will help ensure the new branch has full shelves. We’ll provide you with a record of your loan to us, we’ll catalog the items, and include them in the collection. We promise not to sell them, so that they’re available when you-or other library patrons-want them. And if you want them back, we can make that happen too.

How It Works:

Download this form and bring it with your items to the Library.

A staff member or volunteer will help you fill out bookmarks for each item to be loaned, and then you’ll be given a copy of the form for your records. Note: If you want to save time at the Library, please download the bookmarks, fill them out at home, and place them in your items.Please note that these bookmarks are for internal use only and will not be in the items once they are placed on the shelves.

Our staff will process the items with identification stamps and a barcode, and put the items into the collection.

If we are unable to include your item in the collection, we will notify you, and you have 30 days from date of notification to retrieve the item or donate it for the book sale.

When you want one or more of your items back, contact the Round Lake Library. They will let you know if the item is on the shelf or in circulation and will give you an estimated time until you can retrieve your item. If the item is on the shelf, we will have it ready for you in 14 working days.

If one of your items has been damaged or is lost, we’ll contact you. The Round Lake Library is not responsible for damages or losses.

If we decide to remove one of your items from the collection, we’ll notify you. You have the choice to retrieve the item or allow us to sell it in the next book sale. You will have 30 days from date of notification to retrieve the item.