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Originally Posted by kesey
How very parochial of them.  |
Well, libraries are locally funded (by city or by county) so they are quite literally parochial. If they were national then some sort of international membership might be more doable. Some allow people from outside their community to buy library access at an additional fee. As it is, a single town cannot support global book lending. I'm in one of the larger library systems but I can't imagine its tax base of a million people being able to afford to lend to the entire planet. Legally they are as restricted as paper book lenders. They can't copy books to lend to more members. It's one copy at a time.