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Went to the library this afternoon to pick up reference books for current project. My normal tendency is to buy whatever I need, but in this case the sources that everyone was recommending were out of print with used copies being prohibitively expensive...

and then the lightbulb dawned. Sure enough, Broome County Public Library had copies of the two I really wanted to read, plus a third that looked interesting.

I miss the days when they used to stamp the front of a book with the due date, so you could see how often it had circulated. From the tags in front, I could see both books had been taken out in the early 90s, but no clue whether or not they've circulated since then. But now they're mine, all mine.

Until January 2nd, that is.

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Date: 2009-12-13 05:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mtlawson.livejournal.com
You can't renew them more than once?

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Date: 2009-12-13 04:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com
Well I can renew over the phone or via the internet, so could keep them for another 3 weeks after that date, if I need to.

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Date: 2009-12-13 05:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mtlawson.livejournal.com
Okay. It had never occurred to me until you wrote the 'until January 2nd, that is' that other library systems might not let you renew more than once. (Ours lets you renew five times unless it's on hold for someone else.) Yes, I know it's obvious, but when you use one library system for so long you forget others are different animals entirely.

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