Borrowing things
- Book the items online through the catalogue, choose your pickup and drop off dates. You can always extend the date if no one else has made a booking. If someone else already has the thing on loan, you can reserve it
- Come in to pick up your item. Pay for it only at this point
- Anything that normally requires a proof of age to buy, such as bladed tools, needs photo ID, such as a driving licence, passport or government ID card, in order to take them away
- You don’t have to pay borrowing fees immediately. Your account can accrue up to £5 of debit. Once it goes up to £5, you’ll need to actually pay. You can pre-load your account with credit, if you’d prefer. Payments can be via debit/credit card online or you can pay by bank transfer (reference: “BayShare account”). Bank transfers may take up to 48 hours to be added to your account – please ask a librarian to process it, if you need it dealt with faster
- Pay the borrowing fee – membership tiers, other than pay-as-you-go, provide discounts on the borrowing fees
- Use the item responsibly and with joy!
- Return the item on, or before, your return date
- Tell your local family, friends and communities!
Returning things
- Ensure the thing is clean and dry. We may charge a cleaning fee, of £5, if we need to spend time to make something ready to be restocked
- Just pop in and drop off your item with a librarian
- Please tell us if the item has been broken in use. We won’t charge you for repair or replacement, unless you were using the item improperly when it broke
- If you’ve kept the item longer than you booked it for, then you will be fined £1/day! If there are extenuating circumstances why you couldn’t return it on time and could not extend your booking, then the librarian may waive this fine