· If you want to borrow books, periodicals, digital video & audio materials and braille books, please follow reading and borrowing procedures with a library card, which has the borrowing function.

· Borrowed Periods
1. The borrowed periods are 21 days for both Chinese and foreign books, if the books are not reserved by other readers, can be renewed once, the extended period is still 21 days counting from the renewed date. The periodical borrowed period is 14 days and cannot be renewed. The digital video & audio materials borrowed period is 14 days and cannot be renewed. The braille books borrowed period is 60 days and cannot renewed as well.
2. Please check the borrowed books, periodicals and digital video & audio materials carefully, if find there are tearing pages and damage should declare to library staff immediately.

· Book Renewal
1. Dial the 24hr renewal line: 0755-82841200～03.
2. Renew online：Please login our library website http://www.szlib.gov.cn/ to renew books.

· Self- aid Borrowing and Returning Books
1. To suit our readers’ convenience, the library offers self-aid services in borrowing and lending books. Readers can use automatic self-borrowing and self-returning machines on each floor to deal with the procedures (can’t use the self-aid machines to borrow and return periodicals, digital video & audio materials and braille books yet)
2. Please do not put books and periodicals on bookshelves if you have not finished the return procedures for them, put them on bookshelves by yourselves will make your books overdue.

· Exchanged Circulation Service
Readers who holding the card with the exchanged circulation function of public libraries in Shenzhen, can borrow 2 Chinese books from the agreed libraries each time with a 30 days borrowed period but not allow to renew books.

· The Following Materials Cannot Be Borrowed
1. All newspapers & periodicals in the Serials Service Area on the ground floor.
2. Reference books or other books regulated to be reserved in the Book Lending area on the first and second floors.
3. All materials on the third, fourth and fifth floors (except audio-visual materials on the third floor)
4. Other books for public affairs or materials labeled with reserve.

· Qualification Cancellation and Compensation Responsibility
1. Please return the books, periodicals and audio-visual materials in time in order to satisfy the other readers’ need of borrowing and reading. The overdue penalty is 0.3 Yuan of one book per day, the up limit of it is 20 Yuan per book.
2. Readers should keep the borrowed materials clean and take good care of them avoiding the loss. If you lose library materials or pollute and damage them or their labels carelessly, you have to pay the fines according to the standard regulation.
3. Damage or foul materials include doodling, marking, folding, cutting, fouling, tearing and so on. If it is light damage and does not affect reading, the penalty will be 0.5-2 times of the original book price. If it is damage badly, cannot be repaired and affect reading, will treat as the loss.
4. Compensation fee will be charged if the lost literature can’t be bought: Compensation is 3 times of the original price if readers lose a book or a periodical. Lose any a volume of a series of collections, readers need to pay 2 times of the whole series’ price as compensation. (Readers can also buy the same series of books in the same edition in person themselves). The total sum of lost materials exceed 5 items, the reader will be cancelled the qualification of holding a library card.
5. Readers who carry the library’s collections left the library without finishing all lending procedures will be cancelled the qualification of holding a reader card and be handled according to related regulations by the security.