PRIMARY IDENTIFICATION (A MINIMUM OF ONE REQUIRED)

1. Driver’s license
2. Car registration
3. Check with name and address or bank book
4. Rental lease
5. Personal mail and another form of I.D.
6. Utility bill or receipt
7. Welfare card
8. Identification by a member of the staff
9. Telephone directory
10. City directory
11. Proof of mailing

SECONDARY IDENTIFICATION (2 OR MORE REQUIRED)

1. Telephone calling card
2. R. I. Identification from the Dept. of Motor Vehicles
3. Supermarket courtesy card
4. Valid Green Card

For college students:

1. Student I.D. (if living on campus), and proof of home address
2. Student I.D. and other I.D. (if living off campus), and proof of home address

For young adults:

1. Bus pass
2. Social Security card number (optional)
3. Photo identification
4. Parent name and address (see above list for verfication)
5. Report card
6. Class schedule

POLICY: 1. BORROWERS CARDS

a. Each OSL patron must present his/her valid OSL card to the library before borrowing privileges will be extended. Exceptions may be made, for good and sufficient reasons, by a person in authority at the loaning library.

b. A patron should have only one OSL card with one active barcode.

c. The charge for a lost OSL card is $1.00.

2. LOCAL POLICIES

a. The policies of the owning library will govern the loan transaction. It is the responsibility of the lending library to inform its patrons of policy.

b. Libraries will accept and check in materials returned (belonging) to any (member) library, but will not be responsible for damage incurred during transit.

3. FINES

a. No loans will be made to OSL patrons owing more than $5.00 in fines. Exceptions may be made, for good and sufficient reasons, by a person in authority at the Loaning library.

b. Loans will be made if the patron brings the fine amount below $5.00 either at his/her home library or the loaning library.

c. Libraries will accept and retain fines due at any library. Those libraries that cannot retain fines will forward them to the loaning library.

d. Fines will be assessed according to the rules of the loaning library.

4. OVERDUE LIBRARY MATERIALS

No loans will be made to OSL patrons with overdue materials at any OSL library. Items 2 weeks or less overdue may be renewed to allow borrowing privileges to be restored. Exceptions may be made, for good and sufficient reasons, by a person in authority at the loaning library.

POLICY:

A. No loans will be made to patrons with outstanding lost materials. Exceptions may be made, with good and sufficient reasons, by a person in authority at the loaning library.

B. All libraries will accept payments for lost or unreturned materials from all OSL libraries.

C. The "OSL MATERIALS LOST AND PAID" form (below) will be filled out and forwarded with the payment to the owning library

D. Patrons will be issued a receipt for the payment

E. The patron record will be updated to reflect the amount of payment.

OSL MATERIALS LOST AND PAID

OWNING LIBRARY    _________________________       DATE_____________

PATRON NAME       _________________________________________________

ITEM TITLE        _________________________________________________

ITEM AUTHOR       _________________________________________________

ITEM BARCODE      _________________________________________________

RECEIVING LIBRARY ____________________AMOUNT RECEIVED______________

NAME OF RECEIVER  _________________________________________________

CHECK  ___________      CASH  __________     ENCLOSED


PLEASE CHECK TO SEE IF THE SYSTEM LISTS THIS ITEM AS "LOST".
IF NOT, PLEASE SET IT TO "LOST" AND FORWARD A COPY OF THIS SLIP
AND THE PAYMENT TO THE OWNING LIBRARY. PLEASE BE DISCREET IF 
SENDING CASH. THANK YOU.

POLICY:

1. A list of unrecovered materials will be provided to each OSL library by Central Site upon request, or can be printed by each member.

2. The owning library's local policy will determine how long an item remains "unreturned" before its status is converted to "lost".

3. The owning library will make decisions on replacement of unrecovered materials.

POLICY:

1. One renewal per item on which renewals are permitted will be permitted at a OSL library which is not the owning library.
2. If an item is on hold, a renewal will not be permitted.
3. Overdue items MAY BE RENEWED if 14 days or less overdue, and no holds are on that item. Exceptions may be made, for good and sufficient reasons, by a person in authority at the loaning library.

POLICY:

1. Only the owning library may make the decision in CLAIMS RETURN process.
2. Patrons will be informed that it is not possible to check the shelves at another library for an item they claim to have returned. The owning library must be contacted.

POLICY:

1. Inactive patron records will be purged after three years.
2. Each library will be responsible for deciding if it will clear its patrons' records or leave the PURF on file and will take appropriate action. It is recommended that patron records with fines of less than $5.00 and/or unreturned materials of less than $8.00, with no activity for the past three years, be purged from the database.
3. Central Site will run the purge annually.

POLICY:

1. Membership fees shall be paid within sixty (60) days of billing date. Late fees of 1.5% per month will be charged on all overdue bills.
2. If bills are ninety (90) days past due the Executive Director of OSL shall contact the Director of the overdue member library to seek a resolution to the payment problem.
3. If OSL fees remain unpaid sixty (60) days after the date of the next quarterly payment and no resolution of the payment problem has been agreed to by the Executive Director, Steering Committee and Library Director, the Steering Committee shall invoke Article VI, Section 2 of the Bylaws.
4. The Steering Committee shall call a special meeting of the full membership in a timely fashion to consider termination of membership. This meeting shall be held no sooner than ten (10) days after the Chair has provided written notice to the overdue member.

   SUMMARY:

   60 Days

   If bill has not been paid, a late fee of 1.5% per month is incurred.

   90 Days

   Executive Director and Library Director meet to resolve the problem. If problem is not resolved, second invoice for delinquent payment is sent.

   150 Days

   Invoke Article VI, Section 2 of Bylaws; send written notice to member; call special meeting.

   160 Days

   Special meeting held to consider termination of membership.

POLICY: Any person living in a community which does not fund a OSL library (including Exeter, Rhode Island or living in another state) will be required, as of January 1, 1994, to pay a $25.00 per year nonresident fee to obtain a OSL card.

Any OSL library electing to allow nonresident borrowing privileges to a patron may issue said patron a local borrowers card for use only in that library and in other OSL libraries which choose to extend borrowing privileges to nonresident patrons.

Pending OSL approval, a OSL library may enter into an agreement with an adjoining non-OSL community to provide library services at a cost of $25.00 per capita or at the dollar amount which the OSL community provides, per capita, for its residents.