Library card
Mar. 6th, 2006 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflyI got my library card renewed today!
Sounds like no big deal, but it was. I *love* my Fort Worth library card. It lets me use their website - and the FtW Library website is totally... (tries to think of a more family appropriate term than the one I use in my head)... my faithful servant. I request books from all over, they deliver them to the branch I like, I go pick them up at the desk. Considering that Jamie in a stroller can reach books from both sides, wandering through the stacks just does not work for me.
Anyway, I am not a Fort Worth resident, and didn't find out that the Saginaw library is not part of the Fort Worth system, like most of the other little towns around Fort Worth, until after we'd bought this house. So I had to spend several months checking out books at random from Saginaw's library and bringing them back to prove I was trustworthy, then get them to give me a TexShare card, then use that to get a nonresident (yet free) Fort Worth card.
So the website was no longer letting me renew, telling me it was expiring. Last week I went to try to renew. They wanted a new TexShare card, as that was also expired. I was worried I was going to have to start the whole process over again. I went back to the Saginaw library, and fortunately they were willing to renew my Saginaw card and give me a new TexShare card with no fuss. So today after lunch with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
selenite, I went back down to my preferred branch of the Fort Worth library and got my card renewed.
So, time for another orgy of book requesting. Bwahahaha. (Yes, I still have a whole SHELF full of books already checked out. So what?)
Hm, I'm about due for another mini-research-binge. Although I suppose the pile of Buffy books so I can try to understand the backstory forcadhla's Martin's Passage fics sorta counts. But I should find a more serious nonfiction subject to go after soon.
Sounds like no big deal, but it was. I *love* my Fort Worth library card. It lets me use their website - and the FtW Library website is totally... (tries to think of a more family appropriate term than the one I use in my head)... my faithful servant. I request books from all over, they deliver them to the branch I like, I go pick them up at the desk. Considering that Jamie in a stroller can reach books from both sides, wandering through the stacks just does not work for me.
Anyway, I am not a Fort Worth resident, and didn't find out that the Saginaw library is not part of the Fort Worth system, like most of the other little towns around Fort Worth, until after we'd bought this house. So I had to spend several months checking out books at random from Saginaw's library and bringing them back to prove I was trustworthy, then get them to give me a TexShare card, then use that to get a nonresident (yet free) Fort Worth card.
So the website was no longer letting me renew, telling me it was expiring. Last week I went to try to renew. They wanted a new TexShare card, as that was also expired. I was worried I was going to have to start the whole process over again. I went back to the Saginaw library, and fortunately they were willing to renew my Saginaw card and give me a new TexShare card with no fuss. So today after lunch with
selenite, I went back down to my preferred branch of the Fort Worth library and got my card renewed. So, time for another orgy of book requesting. Bwahahaha. (Yes, I still have a whole SHELF full of books already checked out. So what?)
Hm, I'm about due for another mini-research-binge. Although I suppose the pile of Buffy books so I can try to understand the backstory for
cadhla's Martin's Passage fics sorta counts. But I should find a more serious nonfiction subject to go after soon.