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materials and loan policies
Library Materials and Loan Policies
The Evergreen Park Public Library's collection
has over 65,000 books and audio-visual materials, including:
- Bestsellers, novels, mysteries, science fiction, westerns, romance
paperbacks, short stories, plays, poetry, classics, and
young adult fiction
- Non-fiction books on a wide variety of subjects
- Children's books, puzzles, book and cassette kits, music CDs
and magazines
- Reference books and phone books
- Books on cassette
- Large print books
- Travel brochures
- DVDs, videos, music CDs, and foreign language cassettes
- Magazines and newspapers
Reserving Materials and Interlibrary Loan
You can reserve an item that Evergreen
Park Public Library owns, but is currently checked out. Or you can
borrow materials that Evergreen Park Library does not own from one
of the member libraries in the south and west suburbs belonging
to the Metropolitan Library System (MLS).
MLS is a cooperative of public,
college, school, and special libraries in Cook, DuPage and Will
counties. If an item is unavailable in MLS, we can expand the search
to other systems in Illinois. Feature videos carry a charge of 50
cents per item; otherwise there is no charge for this service. We can even request materials from libraries throughout the
United States as long as the owning library is willing to lend them.
There is a $3.00 fee to obtain materials from outside of Illinois.
You will be notified by telephone when the item arrives at Evergreen
Park Library for pick up.
SWAN (System-Wide Automated Network)
SWAN is the shared online catalog of MLS.
The catalog lists more than 1 million titles of books, cassettes,
magazines, CDs, videos and other library materials. It shows which
library owns a particular item and if the item is available. The
SWAN catalog
can be accessed in the library or from our web site.
You can reserve items via the library catalog,
whether they are owned by the Evergreen Park Public Library or another
library in SWAN. If the computer catalog shows the item on shelf
at Evergreen Park Library, please call the library and the item
will be held at the Circulation desk 5 days for pick up. Call the
library if a title is not listed in the computer catalog. Most likely
it can be obtained from another source.
Renewing Materials
Library materials can be renewed, whether
they are owned by the Evergreen Park Public Library or another library
in SWAN.
As a rule, most library materials owned by Evergreen Park Library
can be renewed twice. The exceptions are videos and DVDs, and items
on reserve for another patron. Please remember, the owning library
gets to make the rules regarding loan periods and renewals. Library
materials can be renewed one of three ways:
- In person
- Over the telephone, as long as the item is not more than
one week overdue
- Over the Internet, through the
SWAN
Online Catalog
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