Audio Visual Services

An exciting range of audio visual material may be borrowed from the library:

Compact Discs

An extensive choice of popular, classical, Scottish and Gaelic music is available on compact disc.

A charge of £0.75 per single disc or £1.10 per set is made.

Music Cassettes

An equally wide selection of music is available free of charge on audio cassette.

Spoken Word

Many popular works of fiction are available on cassette. There is a wide variety to choose from with titles by authors such as Catherine Cookson, Jilly Cooper, Colin Dexter, Dick Francis, Ed McBain, Patrick O'Brian, Ellis Peters, Douglas Reeman and Ruth Rendell. Classic authors have not been forgotten and works by Jane Austen, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and Anthony Trollope are included.

Children's Story Tapes

A wide range of children's fiction from favourite classics to football, ghost and animal stories is available for loan. There is something to appeal to all ages from John Cunliffe's Postman Pat for under-fives to J R R Tolkein's The Hobbit for older children. Book and cassette packs are also in stock.

There is no charge for borrowing these items, but please take great care as loss or damage to one cassette may result in payment for replacement of the full set being required.

All the above material can be borrowed using your library card and up to six items may be taken out for three weeks at any one time.

Videos

From silent classics such as Buster Keaton's The General to modern blockbusters like Titanic a broad range of feature films may be rented.

Programmes on history, travel, sport, natural history, leisure interests and many other subjects are also available.

A registration fee of £1 must be paid before videos can be borrowed. Two items may be rented for up to one week at any time. The hire charge is £2 per week for single films, £3 per boxed set and £1 for children's videos.

Some religious and public information videos are available free of charge.

If videos are kept beyond the due date a charge of £0.50 per day will be made, to a maximum of £5.00 per video.

If a video or its case is lost or damaged a replacment charge may be made.

Language Courses

covering Gaelic, the major European and several other languages are available.

The loan period for these is eight weeks and no charge is made for borrowing them.

RESERVATIONS for any audio visual material stocked by the library can be taken, but it is not possible to request items not already in stock. A small charge is made for placing requests.

Copyright

All items are lent on the understanding that they are for personal use only. It is illegal to copy any audio visual material. Sound recordings are not allowed to be lent until three months after their release.