Books By Mail | Atlantic County Library System

With the Books By Mail service, you have a FREE lending library right in your mailbox!

Books by Mail adds about sixty or seventy new items each month. Large print books and audiobooks are the most frequently requested items. Best sellers, paperbacks, DVDs, CDs and Playaways are all available for the asking. In fact, just about every item owned by the library system may be requested -- the exception is Reference materials that must be used in the library. Once we receive and can fill your request, we'll mail the books directly to your home complete with all you need to send them back to us.

Our Books-by-Mail service is available for qualifying patrons. Please speak to staff at your local branch or call 609-625-2776, ext. 6324 regarding eligibility.

How Does it Work?

Ordering items:

Give us a call at 609-625-2776, Ext. 6324 to speak to a Books-By-Mail staff person.
Contact us using this simple form.
Fill out the book request card included with your last delivery.

You can choose a title on the supplemental book list included with your mailed materials or request any other title you'd like to borrow. Write the title, and author if you know it, and be sure to print your name, mailing address, zip code and phone number. Mail the pre-addressed postcard. No stamp necessary.

Place a hold for items via our online catalog or the ACLS Mobile App.

User must be registered as an Outreach patron for items to be delivered through Books-By-Mail.

Receiving items:

Do not destroy or discard the shipping bag the items come in. Save it to use if you return the items to us by mail.
Also save the return mailing label which is included with your order.
Please renew or return the items within four (4) weeks.
If you do not receive all the books you ordered, they are probably in use. You should request them again at a later date.

Renewing items:

There are 3 easy ways to renew your items:

Give Books-By-Mail a call at 609-625-2776, ext. 6324.
Log in to the ACLS online catalog.
Download the ACLS Mobile app.

Returning items:

Via Mail

Put the books in the reusable shipping bag they came in.
Secure the bag with the tape enclosed in the original package.
Write your name and address on the return mailing label.
Peel off and affix the crack and peel return label to the package.
Mail the package.

In person to any ACLS Branch

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