OPEN BORROWING

10 Million Books – 1 Library Card

Books – DVDs – CDs

In-person borrowing at over 150 public libraries

Get your GREEN OPEN BORROWING STICKER and GO!

Wherever you are in northern New Jersey, there is a public library close by – and your library card is good there!

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

· Stop by the Washington Public Library and ask for a green Open Borrowing sticker for your library card. 

· You will need to clear any blocks on your record.

· Then take your card with you to any of the participating libraries.  The staff there will register you in their system. 

What is Open Borrowing?

Open Borrowing is a reciprocal borrowing program for library patrons to borrow in-person from among more than 150 public libraries in northern New Jersey. The participating library consortia are:

· BCCLS (Bergen County Cooperative Library System)

· LMxAC (Libraries Of Middlesex Automation Consortium)

· M.A.I.N. (Morris Automated Information Network)

· PALS (Passaic Library System)

· SWELL (Sussex Warren Electronic Lending Libraries)

Who is eligible?

Any resident with a valid library card from any participating Open Borrowing library is eligible for in-person borrowing. A green Open Borrowing sticker affixed to a library card gives a library patron borrowing privileges at all participating libraries.

What may be borrowed?

Almost everything! Every library has its own rules, especially regarding DVDs and new books. Please call before traveling to any Open Borrowing library to make sure that you will be able to borrow what you want when you want it.

PARTICIPATING LIBRARIES

BCCLS: BERGEN COUNTY COOPERATIVE LIBRARY SYSTEM

Allendale Bergenfield Bogota Carlstadt Cliffside Park Closter Cresskill Demarest Dumont East Rutherford Edgewater Elmwood Park Midland Park Emerson Englewood Fair Lawn Fairview Fort Lee Franklin Lakes Garfield Glen Rock Hackensack

Harrington Park Hasbrouck Heights Haworth Hillsdale Ho-Ho-Kus Leonia Little Ferry Lodi Lyndhurst Mahwah Maywood Midland Park Montvale New Milford North Arlington Northvale Norwood Oakland Old Tappan Oradell Palisades Park

Paramus Charles E. Reid Library Park Ridge Ramsey Ridgefield Ridgefield Park Ridgewood River Edge River Vale Rochelle Park Rutherford Saddle Brook Teaneck Tenafly Upper Saddle River Waldwick Wallington Washington Township Westwood Wood-Ridge Wyckoff

Essex County Glen Ridge Livingston Millburn Nutley West Caldwell Hudson County Hoboken North Bergen Secaucus Weehawken Passaic County Hawthorne Passaic Reid Memorial Library

LMxAC: LIBRARIES OF MIDDLESEX AUTOMATION CONSORTIUM

Middlesex County Edison Metuchen Middlesex Milltown Monroe New Brunswick North Brunswick

Old Bridge Perth Amboy Piscataway Plainsboro Sayreville South Brunswick South River Spotswood

Monmouth County Long Branch Matawan Aberdeen Red Bank Somerset County Manville Somerville

Union County Kenilworth Plainfield Roselle Roselle Park

PALS: PASSAIC LIBRARY SYSTEM

Passaic County Bloomingdale Clifton Haledon  Haskell

Hawthorne Hewitt Little Falls Midvale Newfoundland

North Haledon Passaic

Essex County Caldwell Cedar Grove

M.A.I.N.: MORRIS AUTOMATED INFORMATION NETWORK

Morris County Boonton Butler Library of the Chathams Chester Denville Dover East Hanover Florham Park Hanover Township Harding Township Jefferson Township Kinnelon

Lincoln Park Long Hill Township Madison Mendham Borough Mendham Township Montville Morristown  & Morris Township Morris Plains Mountain Lakes Mount Arlington Mount Olive Parsippany-Troy Hills    Lake Hiawatha Branch    Mount Tabor Branch

Pequannock Township Randolph Township Riverdale Rockaway Borough Rockaway Township Hibernia Branch Roxbury Township Washington Township Wharton Whippanong

Somerset County Bernards Township

SWELL: SUSSEX WARREN ELECTRONIC LENDING LIBRARIES

Sussex County Library System Main Library (Frankford) Dennis Branch(Newton) Dorothy Henry Branch (Vernon) E. Louise Childs Branch (Hopatcong) Franklin Branch Sussex-Wantage  Branch

Sparta Public Library

Hackettstown Free  Public Library Phillipsburg Free Public Library

http://www.openborrowing.org

Funded by BCCLS, LMxAC, MAIN, PALS, and SWELL

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