Dear Visitor,
Below you will find a summary about the services of Cegléd City Library and some useful information on how to access all these services and how to sign up or register in our Library.
Cegléd City Library is a public education library. Its services – for individual or group visitors – may only be used with valid library card or visitor registration.
Registration
Upon registering, library users must provide their personal details at the librarian’s request. The authenticity of the data must be verified by means of an identity card or passport and an address card. Those who are entitled to a discount will be requested to present their proof of eligibility (e.g. student ID). During registration the Reader will receive a library card; it is personal and valid for one year.
The owner of the card is entitled to: the rights guaranteed to visitors, borrowing books from the open stacks of the library, using the reading room, the local history collection and the library services.
Upon arrival the library card must be handed over to the librarian at the lending desk.
50% discount is given to: students over 16 with a valid student card; pensioners under 70; teachers; persons entitled to Child Care Fee/Child Care Allowance and registered unemployed persons.
Exempt from registration fee: anyone under 16 or over 70; library, archives and museum workers; people with disabilities.
Visitor registration
It is a one-time, free of charge personal registration. It does not entitle visitors to borrow books but they can use the library. It can be obtained at the registration desk; it is valid for one year and it is mandatory for all our visitors.
Its owner is entitled to visit the library, to use books from the open stacks on the premises of the library, and to use the Internet.
Foundation support
There is an opportunity to support our library through donations; therefore, the institution welcomes any financial contributions that can help achieve its professional goals. It will be transferred to the account of its library foundation (Foundation for the Cegléd City Library).
SERVICES
Borrowing
The library may lend certain items to its registered users. The loan period and the number of documents that can be borrowed at the same time vary by document types.
Loan Periods:
- Books: 28 days
- Journals: 7 days
- Audio books; CDs, DVDs, Records (vinyl): 7 days
The deadline to return books can be extended up to two times, which can be done personally, by e-mail, by telephone or on the library’s website. The deadline may only be extended if no reservation has been made for the given documents. The library charges late fees on items that are returned after the loan period has expired.
Lost documents
If the reader has lost or damaged the borrowed items, he/she must pay the damages. The method of compensation is detailed in the Library’s Terms of Use.
Interlibrary loans
Within Hungary interlibrary loan is performed via the National Document Delivery Service (ODR). For our readers, we can obtain items that are missing from our stock by interlibrary loan in compliance with the terms and conditions of the service providing library (use on premises, deadlines). With the National Document Delivery Service, interlibrary loan service is relatively fast. Its fees: postage and if the service providing library, for a particular reason, requires payment that extra amount. Upon using interlibrary service, please also return borrowed items within the loan period. The method of compensation is detailed in the Library’s Terms of Use.
Photocopying, printing, Internet use
The library may make photocopies of documents for its users if it does not infringe copyrights. The library charges for the photocopying service. There are 5 computers available for public Internet use.
Documents which are not included in the library stock are not allowed to be photocopied.
According to the General Data Protection Regulation, documents containing personal data of the Readers or other private persons cannot be scanned, photocopied or printed.
In case of receiving documents containing personal data of the Readers or other private persons via e-mail, the library will delete these documents immediately.
Online services
Our library is also available for its users outside opening hours via the following website: http://www.konyvtarcegled.hu
You can search the library stock in the catalogue menu. (Using the search engine does not require registration.)
After registration, – among others – the following information will be displayed:
- personal details,
- current and previous rentals,
- reservations, bookings.
Renewal: you can see the date of return in the current rentals menu. If you wish to keep the book you borrowed for a longer time, you can extend the deadline twice.
It is important to note that once the deadline has expired (the date is red) renewal can no longer be requested.
Foreign language books
In addition to language books and dictionaries for language learning, foreign language literature is also available in our stock. Besides English-language titles, German, French, Russian, Dutch , Italian and Spanish literary works are available as well.
Journals
In our journal reader, there are newspapers and more than 100 journals waiting for the visitors. After free registration, anyone can read our periodicals, and our registered readers can borrow them.
Media
Our library also provides multimedia documents that include classical and pop music vinyl albums, CDs and DVDs.
Local History Collection
We collect and keep all documents related to the city of Cegléd in the local history section. The purpose of the collection is to help local history research projects, assist in the preparation of theses and to support local political, social and economic activities.
Our collection consists of books, periodicals (old newspapers from Cegléd: 1878-1957) and other documents (protocols, theses, posters, invitations, postcards, CDs, DVDs and microfilms).
Local newspapers from 1957-present – Ceglédi Hírmondó, Ceglédi Kék Újság, Ceglédi Panoráma, Pest Megyei Hírlap – are kept in bound form in the collection.
In the collection we keep 29 antique books and journals that had been published before 1850.
The local history collection can only be used on the premises and it is only for our registered readers.
Fees
Type of Service |
Price |
Registration fee (active worker) / year | HUF 1500 |
Registration fee (teacher, student, pensioner under 70, Maternity benefit (GYES), Child benefit (GYET), registered unemployment / year | HUF 750 |
Registration fee (under 16, over 70, public collection staff, librarian, people with disabilities) / year | FREE |
Registration fee (active worker) / 6 months | HUF 800 |
Registration fee (teacher, student, pensioner under 70, Maternity benefit (GYES), Child benefit (GYET), registered unemployment / 6 months | HUF 400 |
Patron membership / year | HUF 3000 |
Late return fee for book, periodical, music score sheet / piece of item / day | HUF 5 |
Late return fee for reference book / piece of item / day | HUF 80 |
Late return fee for CD, DVD / piece of item / day | HUF 30 |
Late return fee for interlibrary loan | fees of the terms and conditions of the sending library, minimum 250 Ft |
Administration fees of notifications | valid postage rate for letters + late return fee |
Replacement of lost or damaged document | replacement with the same or newer edition if available, or compensation of the document at the actual retail price (min. 1000 Ft) |
Replacement of lost or damaged cloak room key | HUF 500 |
Interlibrary loan | HUF 100 + postage + fees of the terms and conditions of the sending library |
Photocopying for library members - black and white A/4 page - black and white A/3 page - coloured A/4 page - coloured A/3 page |
HUF 15 HUF 30 HUF 150 HUF 250 |
Photocopying for visitors - black and white A/4 page - black and white A/3 page - coloured A/4 page - coloured A/3 page |
HUF 20 HUF 40 HUF 250 HUF 300 |
Printing for library members - black and white / page - coloured (typed text) / page - coloured (image A/4) / page |
HUF 30 HUF 45 HUF 200 |
Printing for visitors - black and white / page - coloured (typed text) / page - coloured (image A/4) / page |
HUF 50 HUF 65 HUF 250 |
Scanning for library members | HUF 100 |
Scanning for visitors | HUF 120 |
Internet use / hour for library members | HUF 300 |
Internet use / hour for visitors | HUF 480 |
Internet use via wifi for members with own device | FREE |
Birthday Magazine - hardback - paperback - special requests on demand |
HUF 7600 HUF 4500 price to be negotiated |