Book Clubs

    Book Clubs & LendingHub FAQs

     If you’re in a book club, you can now use LendingHub to reserve book club sets from Yakima Valley Libraries.

    LendingHub lets you browse YVL’s book club set collection and schedule your reservation(s) for those sets. Each contains 8 copies of the book in a handy zippered tote and will be delivered to your desired pickup library.

    Once you make a reservation, you’ll get a confirmation email. Don’t delete it! You’ll want to keep the email so you can refer back to all the details or if you end up needing to cancel your booking.

                                      

     Helpful tips for LendingHub

    You can browse or search our book club set collection.

    Once you find a title you want, click on the book cover to make a reservation. LendingHub shows availability in two-week chunks, so click the small  button for a calendar popup to view later dates. If the pickup day you want is green, click on it to start the reservation process.

    The default reservation is for 6 weeks but you can use the “Change Return Date” button to schedule up to 9 weeks total if you know your group will need more time.

    Then click “Add to Cart & Checkout.”

    (Only put 1 book club set in your cart at a time, unless you want to pick them all up on the same day.)

    Now fill out the booking form and you’ll be good to go!

     

    FAQs

    The earliest date LendingHub will accept for a reservation is a week from today. This gives us time to prepare the kit and get it to your community library for pickup. If you need it sooner, reach out to your library for assistance.

     

    Note: if you want to pick up a book club set same-day, you will need to come to the Yakima Central branch in downtown Yakima to get it.

    Sadly, the software doesn’t allow reservations to be edited after they’ve been booked. If you need to make a change, you will need to cancel your existing reservation and make a new one.

    Reach out to your library for help, as we may be able to extend your checkout. (If the kit has another reservation imminent, you will need to return it.)

    If someone is unable to return their reading copy to you, please ask them to drop it off as soon as possible at their community library, and library staff will reunite it with the rest of the set so it can go out to the next group.

    At least 6 copies of the book do need to be in the bag when you return it.

    If something has happened to an entire set and the set is no longer usable, the person who checked out the bag would have the financial responsibility for that set. If something happened to a single copy, the replacement cost is $13 or a new copy of the trade paperback. Either the patron who checked out the book club set or the individual reading that copy can work with their library on this.

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