Benefits:

• Overdues sent via email will be delivered days quicker than through US Mail, saving patrons money on accumulated overdue fines on items they have overlooked.
• Hold notices will arrive days sooner, allowing you to pick up items you are anxious for more quickly.

Please note:

• We consider library records to be private and confidential. Many people share email addresses among several family members. We do not recommend that shared email addresses be used to communicate library information.
• The US Mail offers a reasonable (and Federally-enforced) guarantee of confidentiality of mail sent to and from you. There are no Federal or State laws guaranteeing the confidentiality of email communications. Although we consider our email traffic to be reasonably secure (if only because a hacker would need to go to a lot of trouble to find and extract it), we can not offer any guarantees that this information is secure once it travels through the Internet.
• Delivery of notices from the library to you depends on several vendors: the library's Internet Service Provider, their mid-level provider, your local ISP and their mid-level provider, and any links in-between. If a notice can not be delivered, two things will happen: 1) a message gets sent to the library computer administrators, and 2) a paper notice will then be printed. We will delete email addresses from patron records if there is a pattern of undeliverable email. The library will not be responsible for any additional overdue fines you may accumulate due to email delivery failures (especially when many of those failures could be beyond our direct control.)
• Email notices will only be sent on items placed on hold at or checked out from the above libraries; and on items placed on hold via the web pages of the above libraries.
• A current, valid library card from one of the above libraries is required. This service is not yet open to patrons with cards from other libraries, even if they are regular visitors to the libraries listed above.
• Some libraries may charge a fee for holds, regardless of whether the notification is done via US Mail, phone, or email. This fee covers their labor and processing costs associated with requesting and processing materials from other libraries.