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Mission of the Library

The mission of the Plymouth District Library is to help community residents meet their personal, educational, and professional information needs.

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• Today, over 25,600 City and Township residents have library cards and in 2012 a total of 389,000 people entered the Library for programming, borrowing materials, computer use and other activities.

• In 2012, more than 1,010,000 items were circulated from the library.

• Collections totaled 255,000 items in 2012.

• Over 30,000 people attended meetings and programs at the Library - from storytimes to candidate forums to homeowners meetings.

• The library is administered by an elected board of City and Township residents. Board Meetings are held at 7:30 p.m. on the third Tuesday of each month and are open to the public.

Library Loan Periods

• 3 weeks for books on tape, CD-ROMs, non-fiction videos & DVDs and most books.

• 1 week for music cassettes, CDs, video games, magazines, pamphlets, puppets and toys, & circulating encyclopedias .

• OverDrive digital e-books and e-audiobooks are downloaded for two weeks with no renewals. The electronic file locks up after 14 days.

• New DVDs are on loan, free of charge, for one day. Most feature DVDs and videos circulate for 7 days free of charge.

The following are the maximum number of items that may be checked out at any given time:

• Books: No Limit
• CDs: No Limit
• DVDs: No Limit
• Blu-Rays: 2
• CD-ROMS: 10
• Video Games: 2
• OverDrive Digital Materials: 10

There is also a limit of 200 total items per library card.