To request an application, call the Outreach Department. Books are selected from the Outreach Collection, or by special request from branch collections. Maibox books circulate for three weeks just like regular books. The Post Office does not charge postage for the delivery or return of Mailbox books. The Outreach Department also provides library service for those citizens in DeKalb County who are unable to visit libraries by maintaining deposit collectins in nonprofit nursing homes, rehabilition centers, senior centers, and others.
Deposits consist of a prescribed number of large print books which are changed every three months.
Each site much have a secured location for housing the books, a system for check-out and return of the materials, and a person responsible for the collection.