Re: Re: Internet Libraries

Many libraries, public and college/university, will provide "nonresident"
cards for a small fee.  For example, my county library and my university
both charge about $40-50 for a year of borrower privileges.  You might check
libraries that are near to you and see if you can obtain one of these
cards.  I know free is better, but $50 for unlimited books is pretty good,
too. :)

You would need to check that the cards come with the services you want.  My
county library will not provide its free delivery service to anyone who
lives out of the area--but as far as I know, you can access netlibrary from
anywhere as long as you have a valid library card.

My university library will not provide off-campus access to specialized
online databases (i.e. not our own holdings, but databases such as Lexis
Nexis) to the "neighbor" cardholders.  You can come to the library to access
the databases but you can't login from elsewhere.  The restriction is due to
the fees charged by the database companies--fees go up when potential user
counts do, so the univ must promise to restrict access to the on-campus
folks, current students, etc. in order to be able to afford the services.
Even current students who are taking a semester off (as during summer
semester) are blocked from off-campus database access until they start
paying tuition again.  We have Netlibrary here, too, but I don't know
whether you need a current library card, a "friend of library" card, or no
library card to use it.  Couldn't hurt to check out a few univ libraries
online and see what you can get into.

Beth

On Feb 12, 2008 2:08 PM, auwg <auwg-/[email protected]> wrote:

> --- In [email protected], "bleepthisagain" wrote:
> > Just checked the Nicholson Memorial Library System.  You have to have
> > to be a resident of Garland County in order to get the library card
> > you need to check out books.
> > This is typical of public libraries as they see no need to use their
> > tax dollars for non-residents.  Thats why my original query specified
> > non-public libraries.
>
> Heh. They're afraid you won't bring it back.
>
> Seems likely they simply added ebooks under the same old rules for
> borrowing physical books.
>
> Is netlibrary.com still their source for ebooks?
> Used to be our local lib used that source.
> Ed Howdershelt - Abintra Press
> Science Fiction & Semi-Fiction
> http://www.AbintraPress.com
> My Fictionwise Ratings: http://tinyurl.com/26v45
>
>
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