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Your NRLD library card is a key to unlock a whole knew world at your fingertips. Click the links below to jump to a specific.

Acquiring a Card

~~Getting a Card

~~Do you live in Newman Township or the part of Murdock Township within Shiloh School District?

~~Do you live in Shiloh School District, but not Newman or Murdock Townships?

~~Do you live outside Shiloh School District in a place that does not pay property taxes to any other library?

Using Your Card

~~Borrowing

~~Borrowing Limits

~~Renewing Your Borrowed Items

~~Library Fines

Getting a Card

Library cards are issued when the applicant visits the library in person and completes the appropriate application. All cards may be used at libraries throughout Lincoln Trail Libraries System including Tuscola, Chrisman, Paris , Arcola, Charleston , Champaign , Urbana , Danville and Mattoon. Look below for details on who is eligible for library cards based on where you live.

Children age 8 or older may have a library card. The parent or guardian must accompany them and jointly sign for the card until the child is 16 years of age. The library card is a great 8 th birthday present!

Do you live in Newman Township or the part of Murdock Township within Shiloh School District?

Everyone who lives in Newman Township and those in the part of Murdock Township that is within Shiloh School District supports the library through property taxes or housing rents. A resident, age 8 or older, may have a library card for no other cost. Parents must accompany their child under 16 years of age to the library and sign the application for the library card. Please bring two forms of identification with you to apply for the card. One of these forms of identification should have your Newman Township address like a voter's registration card, bill, letter, or receipt. If you are unsure if you live in the township, check your voter's registration card. If you vote in Newman, you most likely are in the library district. If you live in Murdock, you live in the library district.

Do you live in Shiloh School District, but not Newman or Murdock Townships?

Illinois law defines you as a non-resident since you do not contribute to the library through property taxes or rent. Therefore, the law requires you to pay an amount equivalent to the amount a library district property owner pays. This fee is set each year by the Board of Trustees for the library following the guidelines in the law. To figure the amount you will owe, you need to look for the taxable value of your property on your property tax bill and multiply that amount by $.0025, which is the amount people within the library district pay. If you rent your home, you should multiply the amount of your monthly rent times .05 (5%) to get the amount you will owe. Payment is made at the time the application is made for a library card. You may have a card for every member of the household age 8 or over.

Do you live in Shiloh School District , outside Newman or Murdock Townships, but own other property in the library district's boundaries? (i.e. farmland, a business, or rental housing)

Each year you may bring to the library a copy of a property tax bill that shows you have paid library taxes to NRLD. The library, by law, must retain a copy of this proof of ownership. You will be entitled to one card per parcel of property on which library taxes have been paid.

Do you live outside Shiloh School District in a place that does not pay property taxes to any other library?

The laws in Illinois, require a non-resident (someone who does not live where property taxes are collected for a library) to purchase a library card from the library in their school district. Those households in Heritage School District get their cards from Homer. Those in Chrisman School District get cards from Chrisman Public Library. Residents in Paris or Crestwood School District get their library cards from Paris. Villa Grove School District households purchase cards from the Camargo Township Library District. The Oakland School District has no public library within its boundaries, but an agreement has been reached to have them purchase cards from NRLD, Kansas, Charleston or Arcola, whichever is physically closer. While you must purchase your library card from the closest library, your card can be used at all libraries in the Lincoln Trail Libraries System, including Newman Regional Library District.

Borrowing

Individuals presenting valid borrower’s cards issued by the Newman Regional Library District are eligible to borrow materials from the Newman Regional Library District when the following conditions are met:

1. No materials which are more than one circulation period are overdue on their card.

2. No outstanding fines in excess of $6.00 have accrued to their card.

3. No materials borrowed for them from another library are overdue in any amount.

The library staff may not waive these regulations without the specific permission of the librarian, however, the patron may request and receive a 24-hour hold on the item(s) he or she wishes to check out to allow the patron to correct the situation which has resulted in loss of eligibility to borrow.

Individuals presenting a valid card from another public library in Illinois may borrow materials from the Newman Regional Library District. The card must have the name of the individual presenting it, and an expiration date in the future. The card must be either a resident borrower’s card or a system borrower’s card to be valid for reciprocal borrowing.

Borrowing Limits

The Newman Regional Library District circulates materials in a variety of formats including books, magazines, books on cassette, and videos. The following terms of loan are applicable as indicated:

ITEM	hOLDS	LENGTH OF LOAN	CHECK-oUT MAXIMUM	RENEWALS ALLOWED?
Books	Yes	14 Days	6	Yes
Books on Reserve	Yes	14 Days	2	No
Audio Books	Yes	14 Days	6	Yes
Magazines	No	7 Days	6	No
New Videos	No	2 Days	3	No
Old Videos	Yes	7 Days	3	Yes

*Reference (Encyclopedias are for library use only. Pages may be photocopied at no charge)

Renewing Your Borrowed Items

All items borrowed from the library may be renewed up to two times except new movies and new books. The new items may only be checked out once so that they circulate among as many people as possible. If your book belongs to NRLD or to a library in Lincoln Trail Libraries System you may renew it on-line. Go to the LTLS website (use the links page to go to LINC) and click on my account. Enter your bar code (without any spaces between the numbers) and pin number (the last four digits of your home phone) which will open your account to everything you have out and on hold. You can check the box on the left and then click renew to ask it to be renewed. The site will confirm your renewal and give you the new due date. New items or items on reserve may not be renewed so that others have a chance to use them in a timely fashion.

Library Fines

The Newman Regional Library District has established, in addition to the schedule for lost or damaged items, the following schedule of fines for overdue materials as well as fees for other services provided by the Newman Regional Library District. Patrons with responsibility for material in any format which is more than 90 days overdue are also responsible for any and all collection and/or court costs incurred by the library in its efforts to secure the return of the material.

Books and Magazines: 10¢ per day, not to exceed the cost of the item.

Audio Books: 10¢ per day, not to exceed the cost of the item.

Movies: 1.00 per day, not to exceed cost of replacement.

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