Library charges and fines

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Library charges and fines

From 4th November 2010 all customers will incur charges for overdue items and reservations.

Customers who have a visual impairment will be exempt from charges on spoken word audio books and customers of the Home Library Service are exempt from all charges.

Loan charges
Concessions

Customers who are registered blind or have a certified visual impairment
Free loan of spoken word format

Home Library Service
Exempt from all charges 

Books Free loans and renewals
Compact Discs Single item or Boxed Set £1 per loan and renewal
Spoken Word formats £1.00 per loan and renewal
DVDs

£1.50 per loan and renewal

DVD Boxed Sets

£3.50 per loan and renewal
Learning Packs / Language Courses £2.50 per three week loan and renewal

Overdue charges

25p per day per item for books, CDs and spoken word formats

75p per day for DVDs & Boxed Sets

25p per day per Learning Pack / Language Course 

Charge for posting overdue notices 40p per notice. (Email notices are free)
Renewals All items may be renewed up to four times (unless reserved). Renewals may be made online, by telephone or by visiting any of our libraries.
Reservations

£1.00 per item for holdings in H&F libraries or via Inter-Library Loans. (British Library requests will incur a surcharge of £5.00)

£2.00 per item for reservations from a SELMS partner library.

Other charges 

Lost membership cards

£1.00

Eco bags

£1.00
Photocopying

Black & white: Self-service  A4 10p  /  A3 20p  -  Staff-assisted  A4 20p  /  A3 40p
Colour: Self-service  A4 £1.00  /  A3 £1.50  -  Staff-assisted  A4 £1.50  /  A3 £2.00

Fax charges

Fax facilities are available at the following locations:
Fulham Library (020 7736 3741)
Hammersmith Library (020 8753 3815)
Shepherds Bush Library (020 8740 1712)

Within United Kingdom: £1.00 per page
To Europe: £1.50 per page
To North America: £2.00 per page
To Australia: £2.00 per page
Elsewhere: £4.00 per page
Incoming material: £1.00 per page

Internet charges

Library members: first half-hour per day - free, each subsequent half-hour - 50p
Non members for every half hour: 50p
Children under 16: Free
3 hour block-booking: £2.00

Memory stick: £7.00

Hall hire

Community groups (Voluntary groups in H&F only, registered charities & residents' associations only)

During library hours: £15 per hour 
Outside library hours: £50 per hour 

Other groups 

During library hours: £30 per hour 
Outside library hours: £100 per hour

Exhibition space
 

Preparation day: £60 
Exhibition Space: £120 per day

Page last updated: 17/11/2011