That sounds like it was a hassle. I really appreciate the way the library system here works now. I have a card from the local library that never needs renewing and is good at just about any library in the county, including a couple of the local colleges, and a sticker on that card that lets me take at books at most public libraries in the state. The only "renewing" that needs doing to any of it is that every so often they ask me to verify that I still live at the same address.
I grew up in a town where you had to pay for a library card at the local non-public library or go to the main branch of the county library that was a long drive away in a bad area. My parents didn't think much of that and instead chose to pay for non-resident cards for all of us at a neighboring community's library. When the state-wide system went into effect, it gave me great joy to drive myself over to that library that charged us for cards all those years and take out books for free.
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Date: 2006-03-07 02:43 pm (UTC)I grew up in a town where you had to pay for a library card at the local non-public library or go to the main branch of the county library that was a long drive away in a bad area. My parents didn't think much of that and instead chose to pay for non-resident cards for all of us at a neighboring community's library. When the state-wide system went into effect, it gave me great joy to drive myself over to that library that charged us for cards all those years and take out books for free.