Fines, Fees & Borrowing Schedule

The Fines, Fees & Borrowing Schedule may be changed without notice at the discretion of the Library Director.

Borrowing Privileges

• Most books, audiobooks, music CDs, and DVD sets with 3 disks or more can be checked out for 3 weeks.
• Magazines, videos and DVDs are checked out for 7 days.
• Patrons are limited to 3 YLD (recent popular releases) DVDs per library account.
• Patrons are limited to 3 video games per library account.
• Adult Book Club Express kits check out for six weeks. Patrons are limited to one kit at a time.
• Juvenile Book Club Express kits also check out for six weeks. Patrons are limited to two kits at one time.

Borrowing Limits

• The maximum number of items that can be checked out at any one time per library account is 99.
• Douglas County residents may download three songs from Freegal per week. The weeks resets on Sundays at 10 p.m.
• The checkout period for Overdrive materials is set by the patron at the time of checkout for seven, fourteen, or twenty-one days. Ten titles may be checked out at any given time.

Request Limit 
Patrons are allowed a maximum of 50 requests on a card at any one time.

Renewal Limit
Library items may be renewed up to 8 times only, with the exception of magazines, YLD materials, Book Club Express Kits, and Inter-Library Loans which may not be renewed.

YLD DVDs Policy
DCL offers many copies of Your Lucky Day (YLD) DVDs of popular films for the first three months of release. Requests are not fulfilled during these first three months as all copies are put in the YLD collection. Patrons may put holds on items as soon as they are in the catalog. These requests will be fulfilled after the three month period.

YLD Policy
Your Lucky Day items are copies of very popular items that are not used to fulfill holds, but placed in the branches for patrons to check out. These items are labeled with a green shamrock. These items are first come-first served and are not renewable. DCL staff will not hold these items even for a short time, and staff is unable to verify an item is in the branch due to the first come-first served status.

Overdues & Fines
Patrons will be assessed a 10 cent daily fine for each day for each overdue item with the following exceptions:

• The Library offers a grace period. Items returned within three days of the due date will not be subject to a fine. Any item going past the grace period date will be assessed a fine from the due date.
• There is a $2.00 daily fine for reference materials and educational sets with no grace period.
• Overdue Interlibrary Loan items cost $1.00 per day with no grace period.

If a patron accumulates a total of $20 or more in fines and fees, the patron may not check out any library materials until the fine is paid down. If the total exceeds $50, the account may be referred to a collection agency.

Items Returned to Other Library Systems
The patron is responsible for the item until it reaches a DCL library. DCL is not responsible for these items.

Library Material Replacement
The replacement fee for library materials shall be the full retail value of the materials, as recorded in the library database or in Books in Print. DCL does not accept replacement copies or donations in lieu of payment.

Photocopying Charges
8 1/2" x 11" and 8 1/2" x 14"
10 cents per page and 20 cents per page double-sided.

11" x 17"
20 cents per page and 40 cents per page double-sided.

Up to 10 free copies of tax forms may be made.

Computer Printouts
Black and white: 10 cents per page; color $1 per page.

FAXing
The library will FAX from the Highlands Ranch, Lone Tree, Parker, Philip S. Miller and Roxborough locations. Fee is $1.50 per page. The library cannot accept incoming Faxes and cannot send international Faxes.