Library membership

Readers Lounge

Join

If you are a member of a public library in South Australia, you are able to use that membership with us. If not, bring in your current identification with your name, address, signature and photo, and visit a branch of the Unley Libraries.

Everyone in the family can join - there is no age limit. If you are under 18 years, your parent/legal guardian is required to provide their ID on your behalf.

Borrow

Please bring your card or the LibrariesSA app with you when you visit your Libraries.

Most items are available for a four week loan, with the exceptions of DVDs/Blu-rays/CDs/computer games and magazines are two week loans. Hot Speed Reads are ten day loans and Hot Speed flicks are seven day loans.

  • You can borrow up to 100 items including 20 DVDs, CDs, Audiobooks & Wii games, one Hot Speed Read/Flick, and one children's early literacy or bilingual kit.
  • Reserve up to 30 items at any one time.
  • Heavily requested items will have their loan periods reduced so waiting periods will be shortened.
  • Borrow or return at any public library in South Australia.
  • If your borrowed items do not have any holds on them, they will automatically renew up to two times. This does not apply to Hot Speed Reads or Hot Speed Flicks.
  • Receive email reminders three days before your due date advising if the item needs to be returned or has been automatically renewed.
  • Please return your items by their due date as overdue items may incur a fee. To help prevent this, please always take your reminder slip when you borrow.
  • Temporary and visitor memberships available.

 

Your responsibilities

By registering myself, or my child/ren, for a library membership or using the facilities, both physical and electronic, of Unley Libraries:

  • I agree to comply with the policies and guidelines of the Unley Libraries. 
  • I will be responsible for all items borrowed on my, or my child/ren's, membership.
  • I will pay for, or replace, any items lost or damaged and any corresponding fees.
  • I will inform the library of any change to my, or my child/ren's, contact details.
  • I am aware of, and undertake to abide by, the Copyright Act (1980) and the copyright laws on software usage and licensing.
  • I agree to accept responsibility for all information sent / received via library electronic resources and to avoid illegal and offensive material; and to abide by Conditions and Guidelines for use of the Internet.
  • It is my responsibility to report misuse/loss or identity theft associated with my library membership.
  • Persons entering the library facilities or using library equipment do so at their own risk. Council accepts no liability for loss, damage to private property and goods. 
  • Council accepts no responsibility for personal items or other valuables which are utilised whilst in the libraries. 
  • Children under the age of 12 must be supervised by a responsible person at all times.
  • If you have an email address, you will receive a welcome email upon joining the Libraries. This email will advise you of the resources you can access with your membership and you will be automatically subscribed to our community eNewsletter.  You can unsubscribe at any time.

 

Policies and guidelines

  • Visit LibrariesSA for the following statewide policies:
    • Fair use
    • Internet acceptable use
    • Understanding library fees/charges payment options
    • Privacy policy

 

Copyright

Copyright is a legal right that gives copyright owners (eg. artists, photographers, authors, designers) the right to control certain activities with their works. This includes copying and re-use, such as publication, performance, adaptation and communicating the work to the public (eg. by making it available online).

For full details on the rights and responsibilities you can read the full Copyright Act 1968 (Commonwealth), including all amendments.

You must also be aware of the notices besides all our photocopiers and computer equipment:

Commonwealth of Australia

Copyright Act 1968

Notice for the reproduction of works and the copying of published editions

Warning

Copyright owners are entitled to take legal action against persons who infringe their copyright. A reproduction of material that is protected by copyright may be a copyright infringement. Certain dealings with copyright will not constitute an infringement, including:

(a) a reproduction that is a fair dealing under the Copyright Act 1968 (the Act), including a fair dealing for the purposes of research or study; or

(b) a reproduction that is authorised by the copyright owner.

It is a fair dealing to make a reproduction for research or study, of one or more articles in a periodical publication for the same research or same course of study or, for any other work, of a reasonable portion of a work.

For a published work in hardcopy form that is not less than 10 pages and is not an artistic work, 10% of the number of pages, or one chapter, is a reasonable portion.

For a published work in electronic form only, a reasonable portion is not more than, in the aggregate, 10% of the number of words in the work.

More extensive reproduction may constitute fair dealing. To determine whether it does, it is necessary to have regard to the criteria set out in subsection 40(2) of the Act.

A court may impose penalties and award damages in relation to offences and infringements relating to copyright material.

Higher penalties may apply, and higher damages may be awarded, for offences and infringements involving the conversion of material into digital or electronic form.

 

Commonwealth of Australia

Copyright Act 1968

Notice about the reproduction of works and the copying of published editions and audio‑visual items

Warning

Copyright owners are entitled to take legal action against persons who infringe their copyright. A court may impose penalties and award damages in relation to offences and infringements relating to copyright material. Higher penalties may apply, and higher damages may be awarded, for offences and infringements involving the conversion of material into digital or electronic form.

Reproduction of works and copying of published editions

A reproduction of material that is protected by copyright may be a copyright infringement. Certain dealings with copyright will not constitute an infringement, including:

(a) a reproduction that is a fair dealing under the Copyright Act 1968 (the Act), including a fair dealing for the purposes of research or study; or

(b) a reproduction that is authorised by the copyright owner.

It is a fair dealing to make a reproduction for research or study, of one or more articles in a periodical publication for the same research or same course of study or, for any other work, of a reasonable portion of a work.

For a published work in hardcopy form that is not less than 10 pages and is not an artistic work, 10% of the number of pages, or one chapter, is a reasonable portion.

For a published work in electronic form only, a reasonable portion is not more than, in the aggregate, 10% of the number of words in the work.

More extensive reproduction may constitute fair dealing. To determine whether it does, it is necessary to have regard to the criteria set out in subsection 40(2) of the Act.

Copying of audio‑visual items

Unless otherwise permitted by the Act, unauthorised use of audio‑visual items in which copyright subsists may infringe copyright in that item.

It is not an infringement of copyright in an audio‑visual item to use that item in a manner that is a fair dealing under section 103C of the Act.

Section 103C of the Act relates to fair dealing for the purpose of research or study and sets out the matters that must be considered in determining whether a reproduction of an audio‑visual item is a fair dealing.

 

For further information please visit the Copyright Council website.