Virtue (un)rewarded
Jun. 14th, 2008 01:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Okay, it being a beautiful day in the neighborhood, I decided to walk down to the library. Save gas, dump that book that was aggravating me, get some others less obnoxious. I'm old enough, I don't have to finish books. There will not be a test.
And the library is closed. Switched to "summer hours" this week, daytime only, and only weekdays. Whatever stupid kind of library closes when people have extra free time?
(Yeah, they've been doing it forever. Doesn't mean I have to like it.)
Dumped book in "night deposit" slot and walked back. At least it was a beautiful day.
And the library is closed. Switched to "summer hours" this week, daytime only, and only weekdays. Whatever stupid kind of library closes when people have extra free time?
(Yeah, they've been doing it forever. Doesn't mean I have to like it.)
Dumped book in "night deposit" slot and walked back. At least it was a beautiful day.
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Date: 2008-06-14 05:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-15 01:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-15 05:43 am (UTC)Pitt County in NC let you get one library card and use it at every library in Pitt County. Hertford County made you get a library card for each library in the county BUT you didn't have to pay for any of them. There's a library system in NH that covers Manchester, Salem, Hudson and I forget which other towns but not more than another 2, IIRR that let you borrow from those libraries with your town library card. Here in Gilford we can only borrow from Gilford's library unless we want to go through the hassle of inter-library loan. It's nuts. It would take me all of 10 minutes to go over to Laconia's library and borrow a book but I can't do that unless I plunk down $50 a year for a Laconia library card. Or I can wait a week for inter-library loan to bring me the book.
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Date: 2008-06-15 11:00 am (UTC)The university library used to require a separate card. Don't know if they've changed policy.
Other than those, the libraries are tiny -- some of them one or two rooms. As I've commented before, this is the largest "city" in any direction for a hundred miles.
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Date: 2008-06-14 06:11 pm (UTC)I'm old enough, I don't have to finish books.
It's taken me *forever* to learn that.