Library Charges

No price increase!

Our charges remain at the same level that they have been at for several years. See Library Elf further down this page to find out how you can receive email reminders of items going overdue.

DVD and CD hire

• DVDs

New releases  £2.50 for 2 days
Premium titles  £2.50 per week
Back catalogue  £1.50 per week

Box-sets (3 discs or more)

Premium £3.50 per week
Standard £2.50 per week

• CDs from £1.00 per week
• Audio book unabridged CDs/cassettes £1.50 per 3 weeks (free for people with reading difficulties)
• Abridged audio books - CDs £1 per 3 weeks, cassettes free. 

Disc repair

CDs: £1
DVDs: £1.50
Blu-ray: £1.50
Games: £2.50

Requests

• Requests are free for titles held in Poole Libraries stock 
• £2.50 charge for items (fiction/non-fiction) borrowed from another library authority or the British Library 

 Photocopying

Black and white: A4, 10p. A3, 20p
Colour: A4, £1.00. A3, £1.50 (Poole Library only)

NB: Only Poole Central Library has a colour copier, although all other libraries have black and white copiers.

All libraries have a scanner linked to one of the public PCs (scanned documents can be printed in colour - see printing charges below).

Printing

Black and white: A4, 10p. A3, 20p  
Colour: A4, 50p. A3, £1.00
(not all libraries have A3 printers - check with staff) 

 Fax machine (NB Poole Central Library only)

UK
£1 - first page
50p - each subsequent page

EU
£2.50 - first page
£1 - each subsequent page

Rest of the world
£4 - first page
£1 - each subsequent page

Received faxes
£1 - any number of pages
50p for notification of arrival

 Overdue charges

Remember - you can receive email reminders when your items are due by signing up to Library Elf

Children’s books – no charge
Adult books – Charges for each item: applies to all adult books whether borrowed by adults or children.

Day 1 - 15p
Day 2 - 30p
Day 3 - 50p

Day 4 to end of 1st week 75p

Week 2 - £1.30
Week 3 - £2.00
Week 4 - £3.00
Week 5 - £3.50
Week 6 - £4.60
Week 7 - £5.20
Week 8 - £5.80
Week 9 - £10.00

There is a 50p administrative charge at the beginning of weeks 4 and 6, when reminders are sent out by post.

Late or incomplete return of music or playsets £10.00 (plus replacement cost)