Guidelines and Services

• Children between the ages of five and eighteen may be issued a library card after completing an Application for Borrower's Privileges and obtaining a signature of a parent or guardian on the application. Parents are responsible for their child's use of library facilities and property as well as the items borrowed from the library.
• Permanent cards are renewed every year.
• The Library should be notified of any change of address or telephone number.
• Lost or stolen cards should be reported immediately.
• Initial check out of materials is limited to 4 items per card. Successive check-outs may total 8 items per card.
• Fines for lost or damaged materials must be paid to retain library privileges including the public access computers.
• Books, audio CD’s and DVD’s are circulated for a two week period and may be renewed twice.
• Material renewals may be made by telephone (so long as the items are not overdue or reserved) or on our online catalog at https://banderalibrary.org/online-catalog. 
• Visitors from out of the County of Bandera may purchase an annual pass for $25.
• Free public access computers for documents and internet ($.15 per page; $.30 for double-sided).
• Genealogy collection microfilm reader and printer (15¢ per printed page)
• Photocopies ($.15 per page; $.30 for double-sided; $.50 per page for color)
• Notary Services ($5.00 for the first page $1.00 per each additional page)
• Latest Bestsellers
• Large print books
• Internal Revenue Service (IRS) forms and schedules
• Inter-library Loans
• Children's Story Time Thursdays at 10:30 am 
• eBooks and digital audio books
• Monthly Book Club on the 1st Thursday at 10 am (email the library for more info)

  The American Library Association affirms that all libraries are forums for information and ideas, and that the following basic policies should guide their services.  

1. Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation. 
2. Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
3. Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.
4. Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas.
5. A person's right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background or views.
6. Libraries which may exhibit spaces and meeting rooms available to the public they serve should make such facilities available on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations of individuals or groups requesting their use.
7. All people, regardless of origin, age, background, or views, possess a right to privacy and confidentiality in their library use. Libraries should advocate for, educate about and protect people's privacy, safeguarding all library use data, including personally identifiable information.

Adopted June 19,1939, by the ALA Council; amended October 14,1944; June 18, 1948; February 2, 1961; Junes 27, 1967; January 23, 1980; January 29, 2019.

Inclusion of "age" reaffirmed January 23, 1996.