Book Club Support
Looking to start your own book club or are wondering how the library can help your book club? At the Fond du Lac Public Library, here are some things we offer to support your book club:
- Free meeting spaces for book clubs
- Connecting your club with potential new members via our Book Club Board
- Extra copies of popular Book Club titles that check out for 60 days
- The ability for each member to check out their own copy or for one member to checkout multiple copies for everyone in the group
- Discussion guides for locally popular discussion books, accessible on our website or printed at a service desk
- Access to books from other libraries through inter-library loan
Book Club Titles
The library maintains extra copies popular book club titles for adults, as well as discussion kits for kids and teens. Book Club titles check out for 60 days. One renewal is allowed and there is no late fees for reading materials. Cardholders will be billed for lost items more than 30 days past their due date.
Depending on how your Book Club operates, one member may check out multiple copies or each member may obtain their own copy of the title to be discussed. Whoever checks out a book is responsible for the item’s safe return to the library. If items are not returned, the cardholder who checked out the item is responsible for any replacement fees incurred. The cardholder checking out the item(s) is the person who should place a hold on the item. If one member is check out copies for all book club members, they should place multiple copies on hold.
If the Library does not own the book your group is reading and it’s over a year old, please fill out the ILL request form below so we can request copies be sent to us through Interlibrary Loan (ILL) for free. You will then be able to check out the items to your card.
Check out our Book Club Titles!
Book Club Request Form
If you don’t see what you are looking for, we can still help! Please use this form to request a specific book be added as a kit. A staff member will contact you about your request. Please note that we may not be able to provide a book club kit due to title availability, time constraints, etc. We will do our best to accommodate requests, but please understand it may not be possible to obtain a certain title. A staff member will contact you about your request shortly.
Book a Meeting Room
The library offers 4 different meeting rooms to host events.
- Shared Office Space, 2nd floor, 8-10 people
- Seefeld Room, 2nd floor, 8-10 people
- Community Room, lower level, up to 20 people
- McLane Room, lower level, up to 72 people
Please note:
- Reservations are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis
- Reservations must be booked 24 hours in advance
- Reservations can be placed 90 days in advance
- Community Room and McLane have a $10 meeting room fee. Contact Laurie Moore at lmoore@fdlpl.org and mention your book club would like to meet at the library to get the fee waived.