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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
I can only speak for Ohio, but I was told that because State taxes go toward funding libraries, Ohio residents have a legal right to any public library in Ohio.
The libraries are able to set up whatever method they prefer (e.g., in person registration).
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For a long time there were no state or county taxes for libraries in Texas (it was done on a city by city basis. It's changed in the last few years so even though we had some reciprocal lending, it's gotten much wider now. I can get a card in Austin (I'm in Cedar Park, nearby) or Houston (it has several ebook options). But every state is different with different rules. I pay for interlibrary loans to be shipped to my library, but I have a friend in Florida that doesn't have to pay for paperbacks to be shipped/borrowed locally (of course, there are taxes that pay for it, so technically she is paying somewhere.)