Comments on: REMINDER: Return Policy Changes

By: Morgan (KDL)

Morgan (KDL) — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:35:10 +0000

Raymond, you can still check out items at any KDL branch with your GRPL library card. However, you will have to do hold requests and pickups at a GRPL location. Please see the Holds Policy Update blog post here: http://blog.kdl.org/?p=1496

By: Raymond Passchier

Raymond Passchier — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:18:43 +0000

As a Grand Rapids resident, can I still check out items at a KDL branch?

I was told today at the Cascade KDL that I cannot request holds because I am a Grand Rapids resident. Please explain the reason for this policy change.

By: Ann

Ann — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:24:54 +0000

I think it’s cheaper for you to incur late fees if this happens then to drive to return an item. Would the paid fine help the library?

By: Sheri

Sheri — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:35:10 +0000

Hi Betsy,

No need to keep track of where your holds come from — as long as you pick them up and check them out at a KDL branch, you can still return them to a KDL branch (any of our 18 locations).

The only time this policy change would affect you would be if you visited a non-KDL library in person and checked out books there. For example, if you were on vacation in Holland and checked out books at the library there, you would need to return them to the Holland library as well, or risk overdue fines.

Please let us know if you have any other questions!

Thanks,
Sheri
KDL Webmaster

By: TJ

TJ — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:16:25 +0000

I think its fair?

By: Betsy

Betsy — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:57:55 +0000

When I request a book online, is it pulled from a library that is within the KDL system or could it come from outside the eighteen-location libraries, making it necessary for a patron to pay attention to the source of each hold?

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:27:25 +0000

Having lived in a number of different states, I think it’s fabulous that being in this community’s cooperative allows reciprocal use of my library card at 41 different branches, not just the branch supported directly by my property taxes. In spite of the state’s funding cut to the interloan truck/delivery service, I am more than willing to get in my car and drop my books off where I borrow them if it means being able to use my card at so many different libraries!

By: Diane C @ KDL

Diane C @ KDL — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:37:56 +0000

Hi Matt,
You may return MelCat items checked out at a KDL branch to any KDL branch. In terms of funding, while the state cut 40% of funding to the State Library and cooperatives for Fiscal Year 2009-10, MelCat and the Mel online databases were spared this time around. However, now we are looking at even more cuts for the 2010-11 state budget and we don’t know at this point how deep the cuts are or what we might loose.
State funing for libraries supports the state-wide sharing program (MelCat) as well as Mel datatbases. Additionally, in our area, it also supports our catlog system and the delivery system to move materials between branches.
Fingers crossed for the state budget process!

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:43:18 +0000

Thank you for being such a great library system. And for answering all these questions from people who clearly aren’t reading the policy as outlined above.

It’s not that hard.

Return the item where you checked it out.
KDL libraries all = one library. GRPL is not KDL.

Done.

C’mon people, you’re library patrons, so do your duty and READ the thing.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:26:39 +0000

What about MelCat loans? Can those be returned at any MelCat library?
I remember reading a while back that the whole MelCat loan program was on the cutting block due to budget reductions. Has it been decided that this won’t happen?