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How to Get a Mid-Hudson Library System Library Card
With a library card, you have available for your use collections in 71 public libraries and their branches in Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Putnam and Ulster counties. You can borrow books, videos, CD's , DVD's or audiocassettes by visiting any Mid-Hudson Library System library or by requesting a title through the online catalog, with pickup at your desired library location. A library card also gives you 24-hour access to online databases of newspaper and magazine articles as well as other resources via the Internet.
How to get a library
card:
If you live
within the Mid-Hudson Library System 5-county service area
If you live
outside the Mid-Hudson Library System 5-county service area
If you live within the Mid-Hudson Library System
5-county service area:
- You may go to any
Mid-Hudson Library System
library to register for a card.
- At the library,
you will be asked to fill out a Library Card Registration Form.
The form requests basic contact information which includes your mailing
address and home and work phone.
- You will also need
to show some form of identification and proof of residency such as:
- A driver's license or photo ID
- An envelope
or postcard recently mailed to your street address (a phone bill,
electric bill, etc.).
- Card registration requirements for children vary by library. Please call or ask your librarian for details.
If you live outside the Mid-Hudson Library System area:
-
If you work within the System's service area, go to the public library nearest to your place of employment to get a card. You will need to show proof of area employment (a business card, letterhead, etc.) plus follow the procedures listed above for residents. There is usually no fee, though policies at each System library vary.
- If you neither live nor work within the System's service area but want a card, check with the library closest to you for their policy and fee requirements.