How to Borrow

Your home library is the library location where you choose to pick up your holds. Contact a staff member at the library card desk inside either HDL location for assistance changing your home library location. 

When you have been notified your holds are ready for pickup, you can collect them from the hold shelf inside the library (holds are alphabetical by borrower’s last name) or use our curbside service during our open hours.  

See our Curbside Service Instructions for information on how to use curbside pickup at either of our locations.

You will be notified via automated phone call when your holds are ready. You can also opt in to receive email or text notifications instead of a phone call. 

To ensure that you receive email notices, please be sure to verify your email address by clicking on the link in your email.

Return library materials to the parking lot drop box at either location or inside the library. Items that do not fit in the drop box should be returned inside the library or by using our curbside service. Any overdue fines are determined by the library that owns the item. Overdue materials not returned in a timely manner will incur billing fees. 

Print books (both youth and adult), music CDs, audiobooks, and Kindles can be checked out for 21 days. Magazines, DVDs, Library of Things items, Wi-Fi hotspots, and Launchpads can be checked out for 7 days. If no one has a hold on an item you have checked out, it will be automatically renewed for another loan period up to two times.

Express books can be checked out for 7 days. They cannot be placed on hold and cannot be renewed.

The checkout time for digital items varies but is up to 21 days for most items. Most digital items can be renewed and will automatically return themselves on their due date, but it is possible to return an item early if you are finished with it.

You can check out up to 100 items at a time with your library card! However, some of our items have limits on how many you can borrow at once. You can check out up to 15 DVDs at a time, 25 CDs, 3 Library of Things items, 1 Kindle, and 1 Launchpad.

Our digital lending platforms, Libby and Hoopla, have unique lending limits. On Libby, you can check out 10 books or audiobooks at one time. On Hoopla, you can check out 15 items per month. Hoopla Flex titles don’t count towards your 15 borrows per month.