Ashfield Libraries Membership and Borrowing

Membership

Membership is free.

What is required to join the library

One official document showing name and address. A parent/guardian's signature is required if you are under 18.

How many items may be on loan to a borrower at a time?

Borrowers may have up to a total of 20 items on loan at a time made up of a combination of items, as long as the maximum limits for each category are not exceeded. Maximum of 6 items on the same subject.
20 books
20 DVD's
20 magazines
20 spoken word cds
20 compact discs
20 cd roms
6 toys

Click here for brochure information about 'A Guide to Borrowing'.

How long may items be borrowed for?

Three weeks

Renewals

Items may be renewed twice, via our Website, in person or by telephone. Reserved or items overdue more than 7 days cannot be renewed.

Overdue Item Charges

$5.00 per item per week is charged for items that are overdue, except for videos, DVD's and magazines which are $1.40 per day. The second notices are $4.40 per item per week. $5.00 per item is charged for items that are overdue, except for DVD's which are $0.50 per day. The second notices are $5.00 per item.

Lost Library Card charges

$5.00 for lost/stolen membership cards. Borrowers are required to pay for replacement costs for lost or damaged items. This is the cost of the item plus $10.00 non-refundable processing charge. Missing parts of toys are $5.00 each.

Reservations

Items in the collection may be reserved at a charge of $2.00. This is a non-refundable charge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
 


FREE ONLINE TUTORING SERVICE, made available by Ashfield Municipal Council

Online student tutoring service now available through Ashfield Library.

Ashfield Library is now offering an innovative online tutoring service as part of its weekly Homework Help program.

Click here for further information.

Book List 2008

Click here for New Fiction books list

Click here for New Non Fiction books list

Click here for New Children's & Youth Books

Click here for Parenting Reading List

Click here for Large Print books list

Click here for China Reading List

Click here for Modern conflicts and Wars List

 

OFF THE SHELF


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Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell

It is hard not to feel hungry and awkward at times in this book, then thankful for your comfortable surrounds and relatively congenial workplace. Orwell's classic of life lead desperately on the edge in Paris and London between the wars, resonates today with clarity and sharpness of description. Going for a few days without food in 1933 is no different from in 2008. Trying to hold onto rental accommodation, selling possessions, being overlooked for jobs, the drudgery of filling in each day are all the same now. We feel each slight as he is promised a job then let down, or worse, told each and every week that the restaurant/cafe will open ‘in two weeks'. After finally securing a job as a plongeur , Orwell's evaluation of his fellow workers in the Hotel X's subterranean kitchen; a definite society with order and rules some levels below the Paris pavement, are brilliantly alive. Paris before the onset of World War II with its itinerant population of discarded and exiled European nobles, soldiers and other would-be's are beautifully evoked. Orwell's writing is superb with this quote being one of my favourites of many in this true story. “. . . it is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety. ”

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