They used to, in the pre-network days. Or a lot of towns did, anyway. You also used to have to pay a reasonable chunk of change in some towns to get a library card there if you weren't a resident. (Exeter was something like $20 for years, to my annoyance, and that was after they finally started letting non-residents get cards there.) The day we got into the ILL program was the Best Day Ever.) Ours had something like every so many years you had to renew and prove you still lived in town. Don't know what they do now, as I haven't tried to check anything out in a few years.
I think I might be a little jealous of the Canada and NZ cards. ; ) Ugh, so the Ayer library managed to find the old ladies that fit the stereotype of cranky old librarian, huh? Joy. And they wonder why folks would rather look stuff up online and avoid the library... I got a really good impression on the one here, thankfully, and they seem to be highly involved in the town and region, too.
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Re: Library cards expire?
Date: 2011-05-04 02:34 pm (UTC)I think I might be a little jealous of the Canada and NZ cards. ; ) Ugh, so the Ayer library managed to find the old ladies that fit the stereotype of cranky old librarian, huh? Joy. And they wonder why folks would rather look stuff up online and avoid the library... I got a really good impression on the one here, thankfully, and they seem to be highly involved in the town and region, too.