P-TYPE
LIBRARY CARD
Patron Agency (Outreach)
100

This card can only check out children's material

What is Ptype 60? 

100

This Library card can check out 100 items and place 100 items on hold.

What is a departmental card?

100
You signed patrons up for a library card while tabling outside your branch

What is patron agency 114? (outreach at branch)

200

This card can only check out 2 items

What is Ptype 120?

200

Address is outside of NY; Card is only good for 3 months and has standard borrowing privileges 

What is a visitor card? 

200

Your children's staff attended a back-to-school block party 

What is patron agency 111? (OUTREACH AT AN OUTDOOR SPACE)

300

This is a child card, but you can also check out material from the YA and AD sections.

What is Ptype 61?

300

These patrons are aged 13 through 17 or are in the seventh to twelfth grade, and are not required to present identification

What is a teen card? 

300

You table at the clinic once a month to sign patrons up for library cards

What is patron agency 112? (OUTREACH AT A PARTNER ORGANIZATION)

400

Teen Center Studio Card, teens must already have a library card with one of these p-type

What are Ptypes 50, 51, 10, and 11

400


The limit on the card is 50 items but usually branch staff will mail a handful of items at a time.

What is a Homebound Library Card? Ptype 72

400

The young adult team at your branch tables during lunch periods at local high schools to sign students up for library cards and hand out calendars.

What is patron agency 113? (OUTREACH AT A SCHOOL)

500

No residency restrictions, but the card only gives access to requesting physical materials and scans.  The card must be validated and updated for full access.

What is Ptype 7?

500

60-day lending period; expiration date 9/30; Can borrow 1,000 items (including teacher sets)

What is a MyLibraryNYC Educator?

500

The Castle Hill Library is closed, but the community is having a fair that the bookmobile team will be attending

What is patron agency 116? (OUTREACH - BOOKMOBILE ONLY)