Course in Mass most cards are to the network, so you can then use it at any library in the network, so it hardly matters where you actually live.
I have two cards in Mass. I can use nearly every library in Middlesex and Worchester Counties. I also still have my home town library card that I got in 1990, card number 987. I worked there from 1990 to 1997, multiple days a week. I applied for an actual job there in 2003. I am glad I didn't get it, I never would have left.
I also have cards to the library in Meredith NH, and Shelburne County Nova Scotia Canada and Dunedin New Zealand.
Amusingly the hardest card to get was the one in Ayer. They treated me like I had to be a derelict to want to use the library and that I couldn't be trusted since only the dregs of society use the library anymore. So I feel strongly that everyone get a card where ever they are and use it to prove to these stuffy old biddies that not only unemployed ex-convicts use the library anymore. It has something for everyone, and to think that you don't deserve a library card is to let the old biddies win. I refuse to go to the Ayer library anymore. I go to the neighboring ones instead since I can go to any of the libraries in the CWMARS network.
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Library cards expire?
Date: 2011-05-04 01:17 pm (UTC)I have two cards in Mass. I can use nearly every library in Middlesex and Worchester Counties. I also still have my home town library card that I got in 1990, card number 987. I worked there from 1990 to 1997, multiple days a week. I applied for an actual job there in 2003. I am glad I didn't get it, I never would have left.
I also have cards to the library in Meredith NH, and Shelburne County Nova Scotia Canada and Dunedin New Zealand.
Amusingly the hardest card to get was the one in Ayer. They treated me like I had to be a derelict to want to use the library and that I couldn't be trusted since only the dregs of society use the library anymore. So I feel strongly that everyone get a card where ever they are and use it to prove to these stuffy old biddies that not only unemployed ex-convicts use the library anymore. It has something for everyone, and to think that you don't deserve a library card is to let the old biddies win. I refuse to go to the Ayer library anymore. I go to the neighboring ones instead since I can go to any of the libraries in the CWMARS network.