Fees and charges

What’s free?

  • All non-bestseller fiction and non-fiction books and magazines, biographies, talking books & large print are free to checkout – you get it for three weeks and you can renew it three times
  • You can place a reserve or hold on an item (and receive an email to tell you when it’s available to collect) at no cost
  • All our eBooks, audiobooks and eMagazines are free to download
  • Children’s & Teenage fiction – you get it for three weeks and you can renew it three times

What’s not free?

  • Bestseller Fiction & Non-fiction – $4.00 per issue or renewal, you get it for 10-days and you can renew it three times
  • Adult Magazines (Bestseller)– $2.00 per issue or renewal, you get it for one week and you can renew it three times
  • Compact Discs – $2.00 per issue or renewal, you get it for one week and you can renew it three times
  • DVDs – $4.00 per issue or renewal, you get it for 10-days and you can renew it three times

Service Fees

  • Interloans from other libraries – $10 per item
  • Scan to email – $2.00 per Scan
  • Princh Photocopying Services – A4/A3 $0.10 per side, $1.50 for colour
  • Photocopying –  A4/A3 $0.20 per side, $1.50 for colour
  • Printing from library computers –  A4 $0.20 per side, $1.50 for colour

Overdue Fees

Whanganui District Library is now completely free of overdue fees — for everyone, on every item, from now on. Even better, we’ve cleared all existing overdue charges. Tell your friends!