Our Policies

Membership

Please note that if you live outside Sandy Lake Borough, Sandy Lake Township, Stoneboro Borough, Lake Township, Mill Creek Township, New Lebanon Borough, Worth Township, or Jackson Township you will be charged an annual $15 membership fee to authorize your membership. Membership to the library is open to any age. Those under the age of 18 need a parent signature to obtain a library membership.

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Check Out Policy

The loan period for all materials is 3 weeks. Materials may be renewed a total of 1 time. A maximum number of 10 items may be checked out per card or 35 per family. No overdue fines are charged, however, books that are overdue may be subject to replacement costs. Patrons should present a membership card at the time of checkout.

Children/Students under the age of 12 should be accompanied by a parent or guardian that is 15 years of age or older.

More Policy Information

Click the link below to review a more in-depth document regarding our policies

Policies 2025

New Castle District Interlibrary Loan

The New Castle Library facilitates the Lakeview Area Public Library’s ILL requests. We abide by the policies they have established.

You may have a maximum of two (2) ILL items borrowed at one time.
You will be notified in advance of any fees required by the lending library prior to the request being placed.
You will be notified via telephone when materials are available so please verify we have your current phone number on your library account.
You must pick-up your ILL materials within 7 days of being notified; if ILL materials are not picked up within this time period, the items will be returned to the lending library and a $3.00 processing charge will be added to your library account.
ILL materials will be loaned for three weeks unless the lending library specifies otherwise.
All ILL documentation found in/on the loaned item must be returned with the item; if documentation is not returned, a $1.00 charge will be added to your library account.
All ILL renewal requests must be placed three (3) days prior to the item’s due date since the lending library must approve the renewal request. To request a renewal, please call 724-658-6659 x101.
In compliance with the Pennsylvania Interlibrary Loan Guidelines of 2011, we will not request materials that fall into the following categories:
- Current bestsellers
- Materials published within the past six (6) months
- Multiple copies of the same title
- Titles owned by New Castle Public Library, unless long overdue, lost, or missing
- Whole issues and/or volumes of periodicals and journals (requests for photocopies of articles are permitted)
- Licensed computer software data files
- eBooks, eAudio, eVideos, eMusic
- Rare or valuable materials
The lending policies of the New Castle Public Library regarding overdue, damaged, or lost materials also apply to ILL materials. In addition, the policies of the lending library may, in the case of loss or damage, result in additional charges to the borrower.
ILL is a privilege, not a right. Please be good stewards of borrowed materials, return items on time, and adhere to the ILL policies and procedures. Repeat violations of procedures may result in suspension of ILL privileges.