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Thank you for considering the Marion County Public Library (MCPL) for donations. Monetary donations may be made to either Marion County Public Library or Marion County Public Library – Friends of the Library. The Friends’ help the library by raising funds throughout the year and providing items not in the library’s regular budget. Please consider including either organization when preparing your will.

Materials Donations Policy 

Donated materials must be in very good to excellent condition and must meet specific criteria to be accepted by the library. MCPL reserves the right to check all donations prior to acceptance.

Please note: acceptance by MCPL does not constitute the item(s) inclusion in the collection. Donated items may be catalogued and added to the shelves, placed in the Friends of the Library Book Sale, used as prizes during programs, or offered as free books to other institutions.

Acceptable donations:
• Popular fiction
• Local history and genealogy information (including both bound and loose items)
• New non-fiction (published within the last 3 years)
• Award-winning books (Newbery, Caldecott, etc.)
• Children’s books
• DVDs

Items unacceptable for donation:
• Encyclopedias and textbooks
• Software
• Items in poor physical condition, for example: broken spine, moldy, water damaged, mildewed, missing or yellowed pages, etc.
•Magazine and Newspapers

Gifts are accepted subject to the following:
a) The library retains unconditional ownership of the gift.
b) The library makes the final decision on the acceptance, use, or disposition of the gift.
c) The library reserves the right to decide the condition of display, housing, and access to the material.

The appraisal of gifts to the library for tax purposes is to be the responsibility of the donor.

Other suggestions for your unwanted materials:
Donations can also be made to either Goodwill (730 West Main Street) or Hosparus Health Thrift Shoppe of Campbellsville ( 1488 Old Lebanon Rd B, Campbellsville, KY 42718). Donations can be made 24/7 at Goodwill in the outside bin. Donations can be made at Hosparus Health Thrift Shoppe of Campbellsville Mon-Fri 9am-4pm, the donation bin is located inside the door. 

Also you may consider placing your unwanted materials in the little free library located around Marion County. Please click on the link to find their locations.  https://www.facebook.com/notes/386366192527128

Effective May 10, 2022.

Marion County Public Library offers free library cards to Marion County residents and residents of the surrounding counties (list of counties here).

To apply for a library card please visit the circulation desk with a valid ID or piece of mail to verify your address. Anyone under the age of 18 must have a parent or guardian with them to obtain a library card.

Library cards expire every 3 years. You can renew your card over the phone, in person, or by email (marioncountypubliclibrary@gmail.com). We will ask to confirm your address, email, and phone number to make sure we have the most current information to contact you for holds or overdue items.

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The Marion County Public Library is a popular titles library. This means that we try to keep our collection filled with the newest releases and try to only purchase books released in the last 3 years. In order to request an item, we ask that you follow this link and fill out our request form.

If we can purchase the item, we will place you on a hold list and call you when the item comes in. We ask that you give the library at least 6 weeks to process your request.

If the item you are requesting is over 3 years old, we may borrow from another library through interlibrary loan. This process can take at least 3 weeks.

Marion County Public Library offers public PCs at the main branch and at our Loretto branch. The main branch has 10 PCs and Loretto has 1 PC. 

When using the PC at the main branch you will need your library card or you can ask for a guest pass at the desk if you don't have a card. Anyone under 18 will have to get permission from a parent or guardian before we can print them a guest pass. Once you have your library card or guest pass you can go to one of the open pcs and enter in the card number or guest number of the pass.

When using the PC at the Loretto branch you won't need a library card or guest pass to use them. As long as no one else is at the PC you may sit down and start using it. We do ask that when you are finished using the PC you restart it or alert a staff member you are done with the PC so they can restart it. This is to insure that are software on the PC is able to wipe any information you may have entered before the next person use it. 

All PCs have access to Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, and Firefox. We are unable to install any other programs to our PCs in order to assure their security.