On Monday, August 3rd, the Garden City Public Library will begin issuing date-due slips on receipt paper only for all materials that are borrowed. Patrons will receive one slip per visit listing all the items they check out at that visit with each of the item's due dates listed. The purpose of these automated slips is to reduce the various costs associated with the production and use of individual date-due cards.

Patrons can also check the dates that their items are due by monitoring their account online through the catalog at a computer terminal in the Library of from home by visiting the Library's website at www.gardencitypl.org. Users can also reserve and renew books online. Earlier this year, the Garden City Public Library, along with other public libraries in Nassau County, began to send email courtesy notices to remind patrons about checked out materials that may be coming due.

Patrons who wish to take advantage of the new email service can give their email addresses to the Circulation staff at the Library or go online to the Library catalog and add their email addresses to their record by clicking on "Modify Personal Information." If you have an email address in your patron record and you have items currently checked out, you will receive these email notices, which will be sent three days before your items are due.