Policies

Unless otherwise noted, Board of Trustee Meetings will take place on the first Monday of the month at 7:00 p.m. at the Library. Members of the public are welcome to attend. A listing of upcoming meetings and additional information can be found here.

All Pennsylvania residents are eligible to have a library card through the Lititz Public Library. Pennsylvania residents may fill out the application form online or at the Library. The application is processed and a card mailed to the resident at their home address.

The Lititz Public Library does not charge overdue late fines for children’s materials.

The Library does assess some fees for lost or damaged materials. Patrons are responsible for returning or renewing items they check out before the due date. Items are declared lost after they have been overdue for 30 days and a replacement fee will be charged to the patron’s account. Borrowing privileges may be suspended for patrons until a replacement fee has been paid, or the overdue material/s have been returned.

Please see the chart below for further information about fines:

Privacy and Confidentiality Policy
(Approved December 3, 2007)

Library Records Considered Confidential
The policy of the Lititz Public Library is to preserve the privacy of its circulation, borrow registration and patron usage records and to treat them with confidentiality.

Title 24, Chapter 16, Article IV [24 P.S. § 4428 (2001)] of the Pennsylvania Statues states: Records related to the circulation of library materials which contain the names or other personally identifying details regarding the users of the State Library or any local library which is established or maintained under any law of the Commonwealth or the library of any university, college, or educational institution chartered by the Commonwealth or agency operated in connection therewith, shall be confidential and not be made available to anyone except by a court order in a criminal proceeding.

Pursuant to this statute, and as recommended by the American Library Association and Pennsylvania Library Association, the Lititz Public Library recognizes the following information as confidential in nature:

1. Circulation records, including but not limited to titles and number of items checked out, held on reserve, overdue, or borrowed from another library through interlibrary loan;
2. Borrower registration records that are prerequisite to issuing library cards and permitting individuals to borrow library materials;
3. Computer traceable or stored information of records of what library patrons viewed on the Internet while using the library’s public-access computer terminals.

The above-cited records may be revealed only as follows:
1. To the individual named in the record;
2. To the parent or legal guardian of a minor (defined as any person below the age of 18), the party made financially responsible for damages or losses to the library caused by the minor.