New Library Card Option Empowers Parents

PRESS RELEASE (04-23-2025

MACON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY

Starting May 1st Fontana Regional Library will be offering a new Library Card option for parents with kids 15 and under. This new card designation, which parents can choose for existing or brand new library cards, only allows for library books and materials within the children's department to be checked out. Because this restricted card option will not allow for items outside the children's area to be checked out, if a parent wants their child to have access to any items outside the children's area they will have to check out those items using their own full-access library cards.

Fontana Regional Library's policies reinforce the role and choices of parents in their child's reading and development. Library cards are issued with parental consent, and every location enforces the Safe Child Policy, which requires that children under the age of 12 have a parent or caregiver with them. The Juvenile Limited Card is another tool that parents can utilize if they wish. Parents who would like to change their child's card over to the Juvenile Limited Card can visit any FRL Circulation Desk and complete the quick and easy process. If parents do not want to change their children's current access to borrow materials, then no action is necessary.

For more information please see the Circulation Policy at fontanalib.org/about-us#policies or visit any Fontana Regional Library location.