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- Get a library card?
- Login to my account?
- Find charges & fees
- Find checkout periods?
- Find a book?
- Renew my items?
- Reserve an item?
- Access the Internet via WIFI?
- Download an audiobook?
- Research a topic?
- Find location and hours?
- Contact the library?
- Support the library?
- Find out what book Jeff was talking about in his weekly newspaper column?
Getting a Library Card
We issue library cards free of charge to all persons with qualifying identification. This includes all residents in the region stretching roughly from Crestone in the south to Fairplay and Leadville in the north, and from Monarch in the west to Texas Creek in the east. We also issue cards to any Colorado state resident with a valid Colorado Library Card (CLC).
To receive a library card, bring a photo identification card with your current local address. If you are new to the area and haven't yet switched your photo ID to your current address, bring the photo ID and something printed with your name and local address (a piece of mail, a bill, a checkbook, a pay check, a rent receipt, etc.). Please inform the library staff if your mailing address or telephone number change so that we may update our records.
Children, age 16 and under, should be accompanied by a parent, and the parent should have a valid Salida Regional Library card or the photo identification described above.
Visitors and other short-term temporary residents qualify for a visitor's card. Please be prepared to show a photo ID and leave a $20 refundable deposit. Before leaving the area, all materials and the visitor's card must be returned to receive the deposit.
- Borrowing Privileges:
Adults may borrow as many as 20 items at a time. These may include any combination of books, older magazines (not the current issue), DVDs, CD books, audio cassette books, video cassettes, music CDs, and sheet music. This means a maximum of 20 items checked out concurrently, not 20 items checked out on each library visit.
Children (through grade 6) may borrow as many as 10 items at a time.
Children (aged 5 years through grade 3) may borrow as many as 5 items at a time.
Visitors may borrow 2 items of any type at a time.
CLC card holders have the same borrowing privileges as Adults (above).
- Lending Periods :
3 weeks All books, magazines, audios, DVDs, CDs, etc.
Renewals No renewals on NEW books. All other items may be renewed twice if and only if no one else is waiting.
INTERLIBRARY LOAN materials may NOT be renewed.
Click Here to Login to Your Account
Your borrower ID is the # on the back of your card. Creating an account enables you to
- check the due dates on the items you have already checked out
- renew your items
- check the status of your holds
Find charges & fees
Fines:$ .25 /day : NEW books.
$ .25 /day : Interlibrary loan materials.
$ .05 /day : All other library materials.
Fees:Patrons must pay for any materials that are lost or damaged through carelessness. The charge will include the replacement cost plus a processing fee.
Limits:When the total of outstanding fines plus fees exceeds $5.00, your borrowing privileges may be temporarily suspended until the total charge has been paid.
Comments:We do understand that some materials fail with age and usage, especially audio and video tapes. Please inform us when returning a damaged item so that we may repair or replace it. Thank you.
Find checkout periods
3 weeks All books, magazines, audios, DVDs, CDs, etc.
Renewals No renewals on NEW books. All other items may be renewed twice if and only if no one else is waiting.
INTERLIBRARY LOAN materials may NOT be renewed.
Items that are on loan from other libraries (via the Marmot System) abide by their own checkout rules. Please check your account or give us a call for these due dates.
Click Here to Find a book
via Marmot. You may place holds on books by logging in to your account. Or you may call 719 539-4826 to place an item on hold. If the library does not own the item, please fill in either a Purchase Request or an InterLibrary Loan Request
Renew my items
You may call 719 539-4826 to renew your items. New Books MAY NOT be renewed. Or you may login to your account to renew your items.
Reserve an item
You may call 719 539-4826 to reserve an item. Or you may login to your account to reserve an item. You will be notified via phone, email, or ELF
when the item is being held for you.
Access the Internet via WIFI
The Library offers free Internet access via WIFI throughout the building. If we are closed, the signal can usually be picked up on the library's front steps.
FYI: Usually the connection will be automatic; if not, 'View Available Networks', then choose 'Library'. There is no WIFI networked printer; you will need to sign up for one of our public computers to be able to print. Also, our WIFI service is filtered. And electrical outlets are available; you must bring your own power cable.
Our public computer policy: You are guaranteed no more than 30 minutes per day of computer time. Most days, you can get more, if you are lucky and patient. We have a limited number of headphones, so it is wiser to bring your own.
Download an AudioBook via Marmot's Overdrive
you will need your library card number to access this site
Research a topic
Your library card # allows remote access to the Salida Library's online information databases. We also offer a listing of web resourcesthat may be helpful in your research.
Other Library Catalogs:
Find the library's location and hours
The Salida Regional Library is at 405 E Street (the corner of 4th and E) in Salida, Colo. 81201
We are open:
Monday - Friday
9:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Saturday
9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
and Sunday
1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
google map
to the corner of 4th & E Streets
Contact the Library
Our phone # is 719 539-4826. Or mail us at 405 E Street in Salida, CO 81201. Email the director jdonlan@salidalibrary.org
Support the Library
The Library takes book donations all year round.
And please consider:
- The Endowment Fund
People may be reluctant to give to an organization’s general fund any of the wealth they have spent a lifetime accumulating.
The Endowment Fund is the perfect option. It is a separate fund created by resolution to receive sustaining gifts that will be used for investments to generate income for the library. The principal of the gifts may not be spent.
The Endowment Fund can receive outright gifts, marketable securities, bequests designated in your will, real property.Also, there may be a Planned Giving option that can save you or your heirs taxes while providing for a gift to the library endowment fund. Speak with your estate planner or legal advisor to see if your circumstances can be improved this way.
Please see Director Jeffrey Donlan if you have questions or wish to make a gift to the endowment.
Jeff's weekly newspaper column
@ the Library is Jeff's weekly column that is printed in The Mountain Mail.
