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Mission Statement
The Gary Byker Memorial Library of Hudsonville helps to carry out the city’s mission to strengthen family and community life as well as to provide quality municipal services.
Further, the library adopts as its mission providing access for the community to informational, educational and recreational resources through the collection, technology and programming.
The library is committed to achieving its mission:
- By emphasizing excellence in public service through building relationships with patrons.
- By employing a staff that is welcoming, respectful, trained and knowledgeable.
- By developing a balanced collection of materials for all ages and needs enhanced by current technology and creative programming.
- By building and maintaining a facility that is well designed to meet the variety of patron and staff needs.By working cooperatively with other libraries and library organizations.
It is our vision to:
- Preserve our community’s history;
- Reflect its current character, and;
- Provide for the needs of future generations.
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The Gary Byker Memorial Library staff does much to encourage young children to visit the library. We feel that children, from the time they are very young, should experience the library as a fun place to go. It is our desire to make children’s library visits both enjoyable and memorable. However, library staff members are not expected to assume responsibility for the care of unsupervised children.
It is library policy that a parent (or designated responsible person over the age 12) accompany all children under the age of six while they are in the library.
We require a parent or designated responsible person to be in the library to meet children at the conclusion of story hour or any other library sponsored program they attend. After a 30 minute time period or at the end of the closing of the library local law enforcement officers will be summoned to deal with any unattended child.
Approved by the Gary Byker Memorial Library Board 11/23/93. Revised 04/19/2005
Lakeland Library Cooperative
Your Gary Byker Memorial Library card is valid at any of the over 70 Lakeland Library Cooperative locations in Ottawa, Allegan, Kent, and other nearby counties.
We share a common database of materials and any member materials can be requested and sent here. You may also return any materials at any location.
Reciprocal Borrowing Policy (updated 4/17/07)
It is the policy of the Gary Byker Memorial Library to allow reciprocal borrowing among libraries in the Lakeland Library Cooperative whose operating income per capita is equal to or greater than $15, calculated by using the Michigan Library Statistical Report for the most recently published year.
Patrons from Lakeland Library Cooperative library districts without reciprocal borrowing privileges at the Gary Byker Memorial Library of Hudsonville who wish to borrow materials shall either pay a $.25 per item borrowing fee or pay $100 per household per year. Per item borrowing fees are in addition to any program fees already in place.
All City of Hudsonville residents are entitled to a library card issued by the Gary Byker Memorial Library. For purposes of this policy, the term “resident” includes all persons actually residing within the city limits or residing in Blendon Township and holding a Hudsonville card, as well as any person who is an owner of record of real property located within the city limits.More info:
Materials Available
Lending Policies
Most items circulate for 3 weeks, with the option to renew once.
Magazines, informational videos, and some high-demand items circulate for 1 week.
Entertainment videos may be rented for $1 for one week Music CDs circulate for three weeks at 50¢.
Overdue Fines
Most items are fined at the rate of 15 cents per day, with a $4.95 maximum.
Entertainment videos are fined at the rate of $1 per day, with a $10 maximum.
Services
- Photocopies
- Faxes
- Computer Diskettes
- Computer Printouts
- Music Rental
- Typewriter
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- 15¢ per page
- $1 per page
- $1 each
- 15¢ per page
- $.50 for 3 weeks
- No Charge
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Computer Services
Public computers are available with the following software:
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
Patrons may use a computer for 1 hour. If no one is waiting at the end of that hour, a patron may sign up for an additional 30 minutes. No reservations will be taken over the phone. Printing costs 15 cents per page.
Access Michigan Databases
- Infotrac
- OCLC FirstSearch - over 60 databases including many full text and abstracted journal articles.
- SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
- Electric Library Elementary
- Kid's Edition K-6 Interface
- netLibrary
Internet Service
We are pleased to offer filtered Internet access to our patrons. Sign up at the desk and get 30 minutes - more if no one is waiting. Print-out cost $.15 per page. Children must have an adult sign a permission slip to use the Internet. Our children's computers are filtered more heavily that our adult computers. Children under age 13 must use the children's computers.
Click here for Library Internet Policies and Internet Use form.
Volunteer Policy
06/04
The library welcomes volunteers from the community to apply to assist with the operation of the library.
Persons wishing to serve as a volunteer must first submit an application form. They must also read and sign the City of Hudsonville’s “Non-Public Safety Volunteer Statement.” The library director reserves the right not to accept people to work as volunteers.
When performing library duties, volunteers must act in accordance with library policies and standards. The library director or employee will assign volunteers to tasks for which they are judged to be suitable and give training as needed, provided that time and staffing level permits.
Volunteers must maintain a log of their volunteer hours and will be recognized on a regular basis, based on their level of performance.
Display Policy
(09/17/2002, revised 10/18/2005)
Types of material that can be displayed in order of their priority:
- Library services
- City Clerk announcements
- City service/program information
- Other government announcements
- Non-profit & local service club information
- Events of general community interest
Materials that are not accepted:
- Commercial announcements
- Partisan political or religious material
- Personal announcements or greetings to an individual
The library reserves the right to discard items after the designated display period and to limit the size and number of items based on the space available.
Display cases are for the use of the library or library support groups (City, Friends, Historical Society) only. Anyone wishing to loan items for a limited time period to help supplement our exhibits can list their items and contact information with us; however, we are under no obligation to use them.
We do not rent out our meeting rooms for public use.
Friends of the Library (link)
Friends activities include
- Permanent book sale
- Two large book sales per year
- Online book sale
- Mending Mondays
- Special activities
Please inquire at the library for a membership form or use the brochure found at the link above.
Library Advisory Board (link)
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Please Note: Non-City Residents may be asked to pay for certain programs
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