Book Club Guidelines - Eldredge Public Library



Book Club Guidelines

Dear book club members,

Our book club guidelines have been in place now for a number of years and it seems to work very well for both patrons and staff. We are happy to continue this service and welcome new clubs to join.

For those of you who are new to our guidelines, here is how it works. Your book club will receive a sheet of paper for each month you meet. At the top of the sheet, please write the name of the book club, contact person, date of the meeting, title of the book and the author. On the lines below, fill in those members of your group who need a copy. We will order the books for each member who requests one and then those members will get a phone call or email when the book has arrived. For those members who live in others towns, please have them indicate where they would like to pick up the book.

The form with the title and member names should be delivered to the library approximately 1 month before your book club meets. Please try not to choose books that are on the best seller list or less than 6 months old. It is very difficult for us to fulfill requests on these types of books. In the case that there are not enough books available for all members who request one, you can either share among yourselves or those who are further down on the sign up sheet, will have to wait for the other members to return their books. If there are not enough books available, we will notify the members for whom we were unable to order books.

In an attempt to try to make the books available to all of your members, as well as requests from other patrons, the check out period for a book club book will be limited to two weeks. If there are no holds on the book after two weeks, the book may be renewed. Book club members will be responsible for any fines accrued on book club items. We are making this change in our policy in an effort to better serve our patrons and give everyone a chance at checking out the books.

If you have any questions, please contact Sharon Hammersten or Amy Andreasson at the library, 508-945-5170. Thank you for your continued support as we try to find ways to better serve our community members.

Happy Reading!

Book Club Request Form

Name of Book Club :_______________________________________

Contact Person: ________________________ Phone:________________

Date of Next Meeting: ________________________________________

(This is the day which you are going to discuss the book listed below)

Book Title: _________________________________________

Author:___________________________________

Members who request this book: (please print clearly)

Name Phone or email Pick-up Location

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