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If joining with monthly payments, you may not stop or pause your membership. Memberships are a 12-month commitment.
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Note: Your short-term membership may be upgraded to an annual membership anytime before it expires.
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Terms and Conditions

Annual memberships with monthly payments are a 12 month commitment.

You may not stop or cancel your membership during the middle of the 12 months. If you have special circumstances which prevent you from continuing monthly payments, please contact us at info@americanlibraryinparis.org.

If we are unable to retrieve payment from the initial card and we do not receive updated card details before the end of the month, your payment schedule and membership will be terminated. If you wish to rejoin the Library in the future, you will only be able to join with a one-time payment.

Important Information

Once your online payment is received and your online membership form is completed, you will receive a confirmation email to come to the Library to pick up your card. You will be asked to show:

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If your card has failed or you wish to be charged with a new card, please submit your details on this page.

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Benefit program for Library supporters

Friends of the Library (50€ – 249€) will receive invitations to unique, donor-only programs.

Folio Society (250€ – 1 999€) supporters will be invited to the annual Book Award ceremony, as well as donor-only programs.

Gutenberg Society (2 000€ – 9 999€) patrons will have the opportunity to host a dinner with an Evenings with an Author sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg speaker, as well as all the benefits listed above.

Ex Libris Lux Society (10 000€ and above) sponsors will be invited to an annual dinner with Ex Libris Lux donors and Library leadership, as well as all the benefits listed above. They will also be invited to an exclusive cocktail dînatoire with our Gala speaker.

Planned giving to the Library

A charitable gift from your estate is simple to implement and is easy to change if you should need to access the assets during your lifetime. If you would like to include a gift to the Library in your will, ask your estate planning attorney to add this suggested wording to your will or living trust. Please make sure to use the Library’s correct legal name appears in all final documents as: The American Library in Paris Inc.

Unrestricted Gift: I give, devise, and bequeath to the American Library in Paris Inc, (insert dollar amount) Dollars* to be used for its general purposes.

Residuary Bequest: I give, devise, and bequeath to the American Library in Paris Inc , (insert percentage amount) percent of the residue of my estate to be used for its general purposes.