Free to read all you want in-house, but if you want to take some home, you gotta pony up for that card.
Fortunately the card was usually cheap.
Free to read all you want in-house, but if you want to take some home, you gotta pony up for that card.
Fortunately the card was usually cheap.
I’ve never heard of a library card costing anything. But I guess I’m not really surprised if that happens somewhere.
when i was a kid, we lived on the ‘wrong’ side of a county line, and thus, in a different township than was part of the nearest (7 miles away) public library’s “service area”… tax sources, jurisdictions, and all that jazz. it was outrageously expensive to get an ‘out of area’ library card… at least that’s what i was told. we never had one.
so our library was a tiny rural library that was housed in an old one-room school house. it was open only a few hours a day, a couple days a week; instead of the 7 days a week at the public library in town (an original carnegie library).
It’s always America… :)
I’ve also never paid for a library card and I live in the US, so it’s clearly not always America. In fact most commenters here are noting they are paying small fees in euros so it seems this trend is common in Europe more so.