Nelson City Council

Your membership responsibilities

When you sign the membership form you agree to comply with the conditions of membership:

• You are responsible for your card and any items borrowed on your card. Guarantors are responsible for children's and young person's cards, any items borrowed, and the content of materials chosen. 
• Please return borrowed items in good condition. 
• Pay replacement costs for lost or damaged items.
• Pay all library rental, extended loan and other charges and fees incurred.

Please remember to:

• Bring your library card on each visit.

• Contact us if your card is lost or stolen. You are responsible for items borrowed before the loss is reported. A replacement card charge of $2.50 applies.

• Inform us of any change of address or telephone number.

Lost or damaged items

If something you've borrowed from the library gets damaged, please tell us about it, but please do not attempt to mend items yourself.

We may have to charge a replacement cost if an item is lost or beyond repair.

Things you need to know:

• You are unable to borrow if charges on your card total $20.00 or more.

• All unpaid overdue accounts sent to a debt collection agency will have a non-refundable library debt administration fee added.

• In signing your membership form, you agree to information being passed to a debt collection agency should you default. In recovering money you owe, any costs incurred in the recovery of this debt will be added to your account.

• If you have not used your library card for two years or more, your membership may be cancelled.