Circulation Privileges

the owner (or guarantor of a minor) to verify current contact information on the patron account. Library cards that have not been renewed in over 3 years are considered inactive and are deleted if there are no lost item fees attached.

Any further matters concerning patron accounts are decided by the library management, including account restrictions due to noncompliance with circulation policies.

Patrons of Duchesne County libraries initially check-out 5 items at a time. Following three months of probationary circulation with no outstanding overdue or lost items, a resident patron may check out 24 physical items at a time.

All items checkout for 3 weeks. Launchpad tablets are only checked out to adult accounts; two tablets per account. They are unavailable during probation. Most items may be renewed once for another three weeks if it is not on hold (reserved) for another waiting patron; otherwise, it must be returned. After renewing an item once and the item is not on hold, a patron may re-check-out the item (three more weeks and the possibility of another renewal) upon presenting the item at the circulation desk. Videos (DVD/Blu-ray) and Launchpad tablets are not renewable, but may be re-checked out for three weeks by following this procedure.

Duchesne County Library System and Uintah County Library enjoy a physical collection borrowing agreement as a consortium (partnership). Patrons of those counties or the Uintah and Ouray reservation have access to the physical collections of Duchesne Branch, Roosevelt Branch, and Uintah County Library and may check-out, check-in, and place holds at any of those branches or on Duchesne County Library System’s online catalog. Items on hold will be held at the patron’s home branch for one week following the item’s arrival and patrons will be notified by e-mail. If an item hasn’t been picked-up in one week it will be sent to the next waiting patron or returned to the owning library unless the patron has contacted the library and arranged to pick-up the item soon. Patrons may ask for their hold to be suspended for a time, allowing other patrons to borrow the item in the meantime.

Minors under 18 years of age may not check out R-rated, Mature-rated, or Unrated video content (not including “Not-rated”) without the parent/guardian present. They also cannot access such content in the digital collections.

Digital collections including eBooks, audiobooks, magazines, video, and music are available to Duchesne County residents through Utah’s Online Public Library Libby platform and Duchesne County Library’s hoopla platform. The lending period varies between titles on both platforms. In Libby, patrons may check out 15 items and place 10 holds at a time. If not on hold, the option to renew an item appears three days before the check-out’s expiration date. When a hold is available, patrons have three days to check-out the title or suspend their hold, otherwise the hold is canceled. In hoopla patrons may check out 5 items a month. All hoopla items (except minor-prohibited content) are available to circulate at any time by all patrons, making holds and renewals inapplicable. Duchesne County and Uintah County Libraries cannot share digital collections due to the platforms’ contract restrictions.