HOW TO: GET A LIBRARY CARD
Residents of the Elmont Union Free School District and contracted library funding districts
Borrower’s Cards for all family members are issued for a THREE YEAR PERIOD.
Libraries are no longer just books. We are here with various resources to help you and your family learn, grow, and entertain!
Many public libraries in Nassau are offering residents without an existing library card a Digital Library Card, with access to:
e-books, audiobooks, live tutoring, digital magazines, language courses, streaming video, test prep, and more.
However, if you want full service to everything your local library has to offer, come on in and get a physical library card.
Your public library is a fountain of information.
To get a library card, come into our branch and bring two forms of identification (required), as follows:
Driver’s license/or motor vehicle identification card- Current utility bill
- Rent receipt
- Tax bill
- Voter registration
- Bank statements or printed check with names and address
- Race track badge and letter from dormitory supervisor
- Or an alternate official document issued by a government agency that specifies the name and address
In lieu of one of the above, a written, notarized affidavit from the person with whom the applicant resides will be accepted, providing that person is themselves a registered borrower.
Three books may be borrowed immediately upon satisfaction of identification as outlined in the previous paragraph. No audio-visual materials may be loaned until the permanent library card has been received by and produced by the borrower upon checking out AV materials.
- Children’s Cards are issued from birth through sixth grade.
- Young Adult Cards are issued from seventh grade through twelfth grade.
- Public high school students from seventh grade through twelfth grade who live in the Library District can apply themselves with school identification.
Non-resident taxpayers – a borrower’s card may be issued for one year only to a non-resident individual who pays Elmont Union Free School District taxes, to be renewed annually:
- upon presentation of a current school tax bill as proof of taxpaying status.
- the individual extended borrowing privileges shall include the single or major stockholder of a tax-paying corporate entity or a stockholder designated by the Board of Directors of that corporation as the one to be extended borrowing privileges.
Those residents who live outside Nassau County may purchase cards. Borrower’s cards are issued for one year only to all members of the family. (All applications for each member of the non-resident family must be made within one week of payment of the annual out-of-district fee.) The out-of-district fee is to be reviewed annually at the July Meeting of the Elmont Public Library Board of Trustees. Rate to be determined by the current tax rate of average house assessment. Borrower’s cards may be stamped direct access providing the direct access fee has been paid.
No Direct Access Privileges
Teachers – Upon proof of current employment as a teacher in the Elmont Union Free School District, Sewanhaka Central School District, Valley Stream School District, and East Franklin Square School District, a borrower’s card will be issued for the current school year only. This must be renewed each school year.
Members of the clergy whose ministries are in the Elmont Union Free School District, upon proof of employment in a district parish, a borrower’s card will be issued, to be renewed annually.
Employees of the Belmont Race Track: upon presentation of work identification and a letter from the Dormitory Chaplain, will be issued a borrower’s card to be renewed annually.