Something Borrowed (2012 Edition)

[jmswallow]

It's that time of year, the special post-Xmas gift for authors and the joy of (almost) free money: the Public Lending Right. If you are a resident of the UK or Ireland and you ever need a reason for donating your books to the library - on top of all the obvious ones like promoting reading and supporting this valuable and increasingly undermined

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[e_m_e_r_a_l_d]

I think the last book I borrowed from a public library before 2011 was Snow Crash in 2003, but I'm pleased that technology is making the great service that libraries offer better than ever with being able to search online for eg. books in all libraries in Surrey and being able to order in a specific title. In 2011 I used the public library for research on Key Stage 3 geography content and borrowed Figure Drawing for All It's Worth by Andrew Loomis. And I can just remember being taught about using microfiche to search for something back in the day...

[ext_965957]

Good to see this kind of system up in the UK/Ireland. I don't know if there's an equivalent system in the US? I've used 'interlibrary loans' before, but I don't know what the service itself is called, and I don't know any of the details. Pretty streamlined here in the States.

[jmswallow]

There's no US version of the PLR, as far as I know.