This page tells you about charges made for items in Brighton & Hove City libraries. Fines, fees and charges can be paid in cash or by cheque with a valid cheque guarantee card.
For information on hiring rooms and facilties and Brighton & Hove libraries, please go to the room hire pages.
Reservation Fees
Items in stock in Brighton & Hove Libraries are £0.50
Inter-library loans £2.50
Special offer: free reservations till June 1 (does not apply to Inter-library loans)
Lost items
Replacement cost
Audio Visual
and Music charges
Annual subscription £30
Quarterly subscription £10
Music CDs per week £1
Spoken word (abridged editions) for three weeks £0.80
Spoken word (unabridged) for three weeks £1.50
DVD per week
Adult £3
Children's£1.50
Language courses for three weeks £2
Scores per set per month £5
Overdue Charges
Adult overdue charge per book per day
£0.15
Childrens books No charge for overdue books
Adult DVD per item per day £0.60
Music recording per item per day £0.20
Children's DVD per item per day £0.30
Toys per item per day £0.03
Miscellaneous
Library card replacement £1
Slide hire per three week loan (plus
£5 deposit) £1
Research fees per hour (plus any online
copy or printing costs) £10
Reader printer hire for extended research
per half day £5
Printing from reader printer per A4
sheet £0.25
Photographic reproduction
Individual handling charge £1.50
Commercial Negotiable
Digital scans per page black and white £1.50, colour £2
Premium digital scans A4 £3, A3 £5
Hire of Computers
Free (maximum one hour per day)
Printing from computers per A4 page
Black and white
£0.10
Colour £0.50
Photocopier charges
A4 black and white £0.10
A3 black and white £0.15
A4 Colour £1
A3 Colour £1.50
FAX charges
Sending per page £1
Receiving per page £0.10
