Good morning, North College Library. How can I help you?

Are you a student at North College?

That's right, it is. Are you over 18? That's our minimum joining age.

That's no problem then.

Well, you'll need to come in to the library and fill out some forms. You'll also need to bring two passport photosQ1 with you. We also need two documents for ID, so a driving licence would be fine.

No, it needs to have your address on it.

That'll be fine.

Well, it's free for students here but otherwise it's £125Q3 per year or £25 if you've got a current student card from another college.

But you'll find they don't have the range of reference books or facilities which we buy for our students. That's why you have to pay to be an external member.

We allow twelve items borrowed at any one time if you're a student, and that includes CDs, DVDs and videos. However, it's only eightQ4 items for members of the public.

Well, you can have both fiction and reference books for four weeks which isn't bad really.

Like all libraries there's a fine system in place. The minimum fine is £1.50Q5 but it can be much higher for some items - up to £5 per week.

We'll give you a booklet with all the details when you join. You can always renew items if they're not required by anyone else by telephoning or logging on to our website.

For college students it's free, but for external members like yourself, the first hour is free and then we make a nominal charge of £ 1 per hour thereafter.

Oh, yes, it's advisable. Most people tend to book twenty-four hours in advance although sometimes you can get one with only six hours' notice.
However, the earliest you can book a computer is forty-eightQ6 hours before you need it, and you can only book one hour at a time.
If no-one else has booked the computer out, then you may be able to have another hour if you want. We have a wide range of databases, so the computers are in great demand.

We do indeed. We've got all the big nationals, The Guardian and The Observer, The Independent and The Times and Sunday Times.
We've also got all the local papersQ7 and a wide selection of magazines.

Of course. 5p a sheet for both A4 and A3 black-and-white copies and 40p a sheet for colour.
You can get a cardQ8 from the counter here - it doesn't take coins.

We do, but you'll have to speak to John Grantingham about that. He's our resident author. He runs the creative writing classes.

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Yes - he's here on Thursday evenings, oh no sorry, FridayQ10 - he's just changed it. You can contact him by emailing the library.