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In Central Ohio, we have a consortium of 14 library systems which include various city, county and regional libraries. E-books are shared among these 14 library systems, I have no idea how. Because of this, we have 17,319 titles currently. Considering most of the big (small minded) six are not included since they have bigger things to do, that's a lot of ebooks.
A national library system would be great if grew out of consortiums such as this. I would not like to see the U.S. federal government get involved as Big Brother has his hands in too many pies as it is.
Even with the consortium I indicated above, there are ebooks I can't get here. So, I am also a member of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Prior to e-books, libraries wherever I lived would do interlibrary loaning. I've lived in tiny towns and big cities and interlibrary cooperation have always been an aid for patrons to get books their library did not have on the shelf.
I'm sure there is a lot more to it than I see as a patron.
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