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 (|o«r« o£ Opening Iflules 
 
 CENTRAL LIBRARY 
 
 Riverside Avenue and Cedar Street 
 
 Hours of Opening 
 
 Circulation, Reference, Periodical and Newspaper 
 Rooms, week days, 9 a. m. to 9 p, m. 
 
 Sundays (for reading only), 2 to 9 p. m. 
 Closed holidays. 
 
 Children’s Room, week days (except Saturday), 9 
 a. m. to 6 p. m. 
 
 Saturdays, 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. 
 
 Closed Sundays and Holidays. 
 
 BRANCH LIBRARIES 
 
 Union Park Branch—E2516 Sprague Avenue 
 
 Open week days, 1:30 to 6 p. m. 
 
 North Monroe Branch—02811 Monroe Street 
 
 Open Mondays and Thursdays, 1:30 to 6 p. m. 
 Astor Branch—Corner Astor and Montgomery Streets 
 Open Tuesdays, 1:30 to 6 p. m. 
 
 Liberty Park Branch—Corner Fifth Avenue and 
 Sherman Street 
 Open Fridays, 1:30 to 6 p. m. 
 
 Pedagogical Branch—Administration Building of the 
 Public Schools 
 
 Open week days (except Saturday), 3:30 to 
 5 p. m. 
 
 Saturday, 10:30 to 12 a. m. 
 
INFORMATION FOR BORROWERS 
 
 The use of the library for reading and reference 
 is free to all. The library is open on Sundays for 
 reading and reference only. Books are not issued. 
 
 BORROWERS 
 
 Any resident or taxpayer, or any non-resident 
 employed or attending school in Spokane, may bor¬ 
 row books from the library without charge on signing 
 an application and an agreement in the presence of a 
 registry assistant. 
 
 The application of a child under fourteen years 
 of age must also be signed by the parent or guardian. 
 
 Applications must be renewed every five years; 
 in juvenile department, two years. 
 
 Non-residents may borrow books on payment of 
 $1.00 a year in advance. 
 
 A temporary resident may borrow books on de-' 
 posit of one dollar or more, according to value of 
 book drawn. 
 
 BORROWERS’ CARDS 
 
 Each borrower will be supplied with one card. 
 This card must always be presented when a book or 
 periodical is borrowed, returned, or renewed. 
 
 A borower’s card may be used at the central 
 library or branch libraries, but a book must be re¬ 
 turned to the branch from which it is drawn. 
 
 Each borrower is responsible for the use of his 
 card, for all books charged on it, and for all fines 
 incurred. Cards should not be loaned. 
 
 A lost card should be reported at once. Adult 
 cards will be replaced on payment of five cents. 
 Juvenile cards will be replaced seven days after 
 notice of loss, upon payment of five Cents, or replaced 
 without payment one month after the loss is reported. 
 
 If a card reported lost is found, even after a 
 new card has been issued, it should be returned to 
 the library. 
 
 Change of residence must be reported to the 
 library. 
 
ISSUE OF CARDS 
 
 Borrowers holding adult cards may borrow one 
 or more books at one time, providing only one is 
 fiction. 
 
 Only two books will be issued at one time on a 
 juvenile card. 
 
 Books are issued for fourteen days, with privi¬ 
 lege of one renewal, except recent fiction, which may 
 be kept only seven days and is not renewable. 
 
 The library reserves the right to limit the time 
 for which books in special demand may be kept. 
 
 Current magazines circulate for four days and 
 are not renewable. 
 
 Reference books are not loaned except by special 
 permission from reference librarian. 
 
 Teachers wishing books from adult department 
 for longer than the regular time may have them 
 charged as a collection by special permission of the 
 head of the loan department. 
 
 No book or periodical may be exchanged on the 
 day on which it is borrowed. 
 
 RESERVES 
 
 Non-fiction may be reserved at the library on 
 payment of two cents for postal card notice. Periodi¬ 
 cals may not be reserved. 
 
 FINES 
 
 A fine of two cents a day (excluding holidays) 
 will be charged on each book or periodical kept 
 overtime. 
 
 In place of paying his fine a child may forfeit 
 the use of his card for three months from the date 
 upon which an overdue book is returned. 
 
 Three days after a book is due notice will be 
 mailed to the person to whom it is charged. 
 
When a hook is four weeks overdue a messenger 
 will be sent who has aiiithority to collect the fine 
 incurred, and a fee of twenty-five cents for messenger 
 service. 
 
 Books should be examined to make sure they 
 are in good condition at the time of borrowing. 
 
 A borrower must pay for books injured or lost 
 while charged on his card. 
 
 If a book reported lost is found the amount paid 
 for it will be refunded upon return of the book. 
 
 A borrower’s card will be held at the library for 
 unpaid fines. 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF 
 ILLINOIS LIBRARY 
 AT URBANA-CHAMPAIQN 
 BOOKSTACKS 
 
 STUTES printing concern : 815 MAIN ; SPOKANE