XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage   
   From: peter@pmoylan.org   
      
   On 30/08/25 04:56, JMB99 wrote:   
   > On 29/08/2025 05:02, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
      
   >> Ah, sorry - I'm reading this in soc.genealogy.britain, where I   
   >> assume many of the readers are in the UK. Of course, the same   
   >> constraints apply here, but AFAIK English counties at least still   
   >> provide that access.   
   >   
   > I was just going to post something similar.  Many libraries also   
   > allow membership to people outside their own area - I have membership   
   > of several libraries.   
      
   It would be nice to have something similar. The last time I moved house,   
   from one suburb of Newcastle to another, I crossed the border between   
   the City of Newcastle and the City of Lake Macquarie. (I now live 1 km   
   from the border.) That meant I lost my Newcastle library membership. The   
   best libraries in the region are inaccessible to me.   
      
   (OK, I could go into them and read; but I couldn't borrow.)   
      
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