Placing a Hold
You may request items in the library’s collection by placing a hold. When the item is available for you, the library will notify you using the method selected on your record. Notification methods available are email, text message, or postal mail. If you’d like to update your notification method, stop by a service desk with your library card.
To place a hold, you may call the library or log in to your account. You must enter the 14 digit barcode from your library card and your PIN, which is the last four digits of your phone number.
Ask a librarian if you’d like to learn how to use our 24-7 Pick-Up Lockers to pick up your items anytime, day or night!
Requesting New Materials
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Checkout
Items available for 3 weeks with 1 renewal:
- Adult fiction and nonfiction
- Braille books
- Books on CD
- Children’s fiction and nonfiction
- Government documents
- Kansas Circulating Collection
- Music CDs
- Pamphlets
- The Great Courses DVDs
Items available for 1 week with 1 renewal:
- Auto repair manuals
- Books with more than one hold request
- DVDs
- Magazines
Items available for 1 week with no renewal:
- WiFi hotspots (must be 18 years old or older)
Some reference works may be checked out overnight. Arrangements are made through Reference Services.
Artwork is available for 60 days with no renewal. A $2.00 checkout charge is required per painting. Restricted to residents within the city limits of Hutchinson. Limit two.
No Late Fees
Just bring it back! Here’s how it works:
Adults: if you have ANY overdue items, they must be returned before you can check out more.
Youth (birth – 17): if you have MORE THAN 10 overdue items, they must be returned before you can check out more.
If your items become overdue, you have 30 days to return them before they are moved to lost status and you are billed the replacement cost for the items.
Charges
Hotspots: $5.00 per day overdue. Item is considered lost after being overdue for 7 days. Patron is billed $75.00 for lost hotspot. SIM card is deactivated after one day overdue.
Artwork: 25 cents per day overdue, with one day grace period.
Overnight loans: 50 cents per hour, with no grace period; maximum fine is price of item.
Fee for failure to pickup InterLibrary Loan items: $3.00.
Replacement cost for damaged or lost items: cost of item.
Collection agency fee: $11.95.
The library should be notified immediately when a card is lost or stolen. A replacement card is $1.00.
Patron Status
The library considers a patron to be in good standing if:
- Adult patrons have NO items overdue.
- Youth patrons have 10 items or less overdue.
- No more than $4.99 is owed on account.
Patrons may only check out physical materials if they are in good standing. If a patron is NOT in good standing, full library privileges will be restored when the overdue books are returned or charges are paid.
News
- Happy Library Card Sign-Up Month!Have you lost or damaged your library card? In honor of September being Library Card Sign-Up Month, we’re offering free library card replacements this month. Just bring your photo ID, and we’ll get a shiny new card for you! Don’t forget to let friends and family know about all the great resources they can access… Read more: Happy Library Card Sign-Up Month!