SCHEDULE 4A - Criteria for Pre SCHEDULE 4A - Criteria for Preparation of Guidelines

[Schedule 4A Inserted by No. 14 of 1994, s. 30 ]

Section 9A

1.   Basic library services

(1) No fee is to be charged for the provision of a basic library service.

(2) Basic library services include, but are not limited to, the following services:

(a) membership of the State Library Service;

(b) access to the public areas of library buildings and mobile libraries;

(c) access to catalogues in respect of the reference and lending collections;

(d) access to books of the reference and lending collections for use on library premises;

(e) the borrowing of books from the lending collection;

(f) primary assistance to locate information or sources of information;

(g) if the facility is available – the home delivery by volunteers of books from the lending collection to sick or disabled persons;

(h) if the facility is available – the use of library buildings for study purposes.

2.   Practical library services

(1) A fee may be charged for the provision of a practical library service.

(2) Practical library services include, but are not limited to, the following services:

(a) photocopying;

(b) hiring of meeting rooms, auditoriums or theaterettes.

3.   Value-added library services

(1) A fee may be charged for the provision of a value-added library service.

(2) Value-added library services are those services which, through some action on the part of the State Library Service, provide a library user with an additional level or degree of benefit to that which is already available to the library user free of charge as a basic library service.