CIRC 1 General

• CIRC 1.1 Confidentiality of Library Records
• CIRC 1.2 Definitions
• CIRC 1.3 Reciprocal Borrowing

CIRC 1.1 Confidentiality of Library Records

All circulation and registration records contained in the shared online system shall be handled strictly in accordance with Lakeland’s Confidentiality of Library Records policy.

CIRC 1.2 Definitions

CIRC 1.1.1.         Circulating Library.

The library at which an item in question is checked out by a patron.

CIRC 1.1.2.         Owning Library.

The library which owns an item in question.

CIRC 1.1.3.         Collecting Library.

The library which collects money (fines, fees, lost book charges, etc.) from a patron.

CIRC 1.1.4.         Registering Library.

The library at which a patron fills out a registration form and is issued a library card.

            CIRC 1.1.5      Home Library.

                                    The library in whose service area a patron resides.

            CIRC 1.1.6      Submitting Library.

The library responsible for submitting a patron to a collection agency (i.e.: the library paying the collection agency fee).

CIRC 1.3 Reciprocal Borrowing

The Cooperative encourages reciprocal borrowing among its member libraries and encourages its members to consider any resident of all other member libraries’ service areas as a resident of its own service area and as eligible to use the facilities and resources of the library, within the limits established by the Lakeland Non-Resident Policy.