The Carnegie-Stout Public Library has partnered with the Hy-Vee grocery store located on the Northwest Arterial in Dubuque to launch a new service point for selection of library materials at the store.  The service will be available through a vending machine called a Lending Library.  Bestsellers, paperbacks, children’s books and DVDs for all ages will be available for check out from the Lending Library with your library card.  A 24 hour drive-up book and A/V drop is also available in the parking lot of the Hy-Vee Store.  

     “This is another step in providing service to the western part of our community which began with materials return boxes at Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School and drop-off, pick-up service at Kennedy Mall.  We believe this will be a welcome convenience for residents in this area of town, library patrons, and Hy-Vee customers.  We plan to load the machine with current best sellers and popular children’s material – from board books for the youngest, through materials for teens – and will be able to stock these new materials thanks to a grant from the Library Foundation and the Friends of the Library,” said Susan Henricks, the Director of the Library.

     The Lending Library is located at the entrance to the store near the pharmacy. The Lending Library has been made possible with funding from the DRA, Carnegie-Stout Public Library Foundation, and a bequest from the estate of Robert Maher.  For more information, please contact the Library at 589-4225.

Some suggestions on how to use the Lending Library:

1)    Your Library card must be in good standing which means having fines or fees less than $10.00 on your card.  See Fines and Fees Policy.

2)    You must have your Library Card to be able to use the machine.

3)     At the machine you scan your Library card above the large blue keypad on the machine.   

 4)   The message on the screen will say, please make a selection and press okay.  For example, if you want the item from row 103, you put in 103 and press okay.   A receipt will print.

5)   If you want to check out another item, you must start over with step 3.   A separate receipt will print for each item checked out.   

6)   Always check your receipt(s) for accuracy. 

7)   Items checked out from this machine can be returned at any Carnegie-Stout Public Library return box.  The nearest book drop to the Lending Library is located just outside the Hy-Vee Store.  Other return locations are located at Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School - 2001 Radford Road, at the Dubuque Kennedy Mail - near the Information Desk,  at the drive-up boxes located outside the main library on Bluff Street, at the walk up boxes located at the Library's main entrance, 360 W. 11th Street or inside the Library.   

8)   Call the Library at 589-4225 for questions or concerns.