thanks for the awesome library link, pa! I usd to live in another county for about 30 years. During that time, I went thru college twice, so always had my college library card, and kids and hubby had the public library one.
Finally, last year, after not living in that county for 2 years (but hanging out at the library and downloading many tv shows to watch out here in the great un-connected) I got a card...using my old address.
The library ladies, who always seemed so old to me, but now are suspiciously close to my age, are ok. They said that since I live in a county that is equivalent to BFE, and we have no library in my or any surrounding townships (cheap!!) twould be ok to kinda cheat. All those unused prior taxes, you know. They are the kind of folks that let a little power go to their head....but now I don’t have to go there, I can use my card online (which I have known for eons, just never remembered to do). So thanks!
You're welcome. It's a great, often overlooked resource. I use it mostly for books - you know, those physical entities made of dead trees - I'd like to read and don't want to lay out $$$ for. Especially good if one doesn't need the instantaneous fix of a streaming service.
If my high school self showed up from a time machine to read the following it would probably attempt suicide. I haven’t had a library card since my college days.
After college I moved to the boonies to be near my grandmother. I had married and we were starting a family. The nearest library was in the next county. The first few years I focused on my family. Once or twice a week we loaded up and drove to Grama’s but that was in the opposite direction from the library. We purchased and were gifted many books from Grama, even had those old things called encyclopaedia. We also had a neighbor in her 80’s 2 or 3 miles down our gravel road who owned and shared with us hundreds of books. When my oldest began school I felt it was important to introduce her to the library. I took the kids into the city, downtown to their “big” library planning to make an afternoon of getting cards and investigating the children’s section. When we walked through the main entrance doors there was a large display supporting Planned Parenthood with pro-abortion material and slogans dominant. Even as a kindergartner my oldest read well. She knew to be quiet but immediately began sounding out the words. We turned to leave but the loud kid whispers had drawn attention from a young woman working the information desk. When I told her we were leaving due to the content she was incensed that I would deprive my children of a balanced education. We didn’t go back.
Later a big town in our county started a county library but when I went to check it out they had fewer books than we owned. The selection was mainly old romance novels and westerns. It wasn’t worth the fee for a card. Finally about 20 years ago the really small town we lived in decided to open a community library. By then I only had one child left home but I wanted to support this. Our house was bursting to overflowing with books almost all in great condition. I packed 2 boxes of a good assortment of really good books, loaded up my high school freshman and drove into town to donate books and sign us up for library cards. LOL... they didn’t want my books. They wanted contemporary best sellers. And, since we lived outside the city limits, even though my daughter was a student in the local school, they wanted $50/yr for a library card. At that moment I began referring to our home as the cultural center of the county. It may be redneck culture, but it’s clean, Christian and well stocked.