If your Great Neck Library card has expired, you need to re-register. Registration and renewals take place in person at any Great Neck Library location or through our online form below.
Our staff will create your library card as soon as possible and mail it to the street address provided in your application.
Patrons who are unable to leave their home due to a permanent or temporary illness or disability may qualify for a Homebound Library Card. Print and fill out the form here to return or mail to the Main Library. For more information, please call (516) 466-8055, exts. 204/252.
Library Cards
Anyone who resides in the Great Neck School District is entitled to a Great Neck Library card. Non-residents who work in Great Neck, or those Nassau County residents with a valid card from another Nassau County library are entitled to borrowing privileges at Great Neck.
Proper ID is required for all categories of cards. Please call (516) 466-8055, exts. 203/206 for more details.
Library card registration forms are also available in the following languages: Chinese, English, Farsi (Persian), and Spanish! Please ask upon registering at the Circulation Desk.
Library Card Registration
You may register for a library card by presenting 1 form of current ID (dated within 3 months) that has your name and home address. Such ID may include:
- Current driver’s license with Great Neck address
- Current picture non-driver’s ID card issued by NYS Department of Motor Vehicles
- Armed Service Separation papers
- Pilot’s license
- Automobile registration
- Current bank statement
- Current credit card bill/statement
- Deed
- Lease
- Medicaid card
- Mortgage statement
- Official USPS address change
- Official government document (immigration, IRS, Board of Elections, Jury notification)
- Park card – current
- Pay stub
- Picture ID from employer
- Tax bill – applicant’s name must be on the bill
- Current utility bill (LIPA, cable, water, telephone) – applicant’s name must be on the bill
Student applicants may show ID such as bus pass, current college transcript, or current report card.
All resident library cards will be mailed to the address on the application with “no forwarding.” If a patron wants his/her card sent to a Post Office box, a second form of ID will be required.
Library Card Re-registration Information
If your card has expired, you need to re-register. Registration takes place in person at any Great Neck Library location or you can fill out the online form below.
For renewal purposes, 1 valid proof of address plus the expiring Great Neck Library card must be presented.
Loan Periods and Renewals
New books, periodicals and pamphlets circulate for 14 days, while older books circulate for 28 days.
New audiobooks circulate for 14 days while older audiobooks circulate for 28 days.
All music CDs circulate for 14 days.
New feature film and entertainment DVD items with 1 disc circulate for 3 days. New feature film and entertainment dvd item with 2 or more discs circulate for 7 days. New non-fiction/instructional video/DVD items circulate for 7 days regardless of the number of discs in a case. All older video/DVD items including feature film, entertainment as well as non-fiction/instructional items, circulate for 14 days.
Items may be renewed a maximum of 6 times if there are no holds on the items.
There will be a limit of 100 items checked out per patron.
Reserves and Interlibrary Loan
We accept reserves on all circulating material. If an item is not on the shelf, we will reserve it for you. If we do not own the requested item, we will attempt to obtain it through interlibrary loan. For information on reserving or interloaning print materials, please call (516) 466-8055, exts. 218/219. Information on reserving audio-visual material may be obtained at (516) 466-8055, ext. 221.
There will be a limit of 50 reserves, including both Great Neck and non-Great Neck material, per card.
Patron’s ability to check out any material will be blocked when an account reaches $10 in fines and/or bills.
Homebound Service
Patrons who are unable to leave their home due to a permanent or temporary illness or disability may qualify for our Homebound Service. For more information, please call (516) 466-8055, exts. 204/252.
Talking Books and Braille Service for Nassau Residents
Nassau residents who have difficulty reading standard print materials are eligible for free talking books and braille books through the New York Public Library’s Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library. Learn more about the program here.