Ron writes: <<Is there not such a thing as Interlibrary Loan in most of the US? I was almost a;ways able to get almost any book that way from very rural western Minnesota.>>
Most of the US, yes; here, NO. The ILL here is limited to northern lower Michigan counties, all of which are sparsely populated and (except when invaded by rich seasonal people) very poor. I might be able to get recent bestsellers via ILL, but not obscure textile books--or even current textile books. I've tried. Plus the library closest to us, easiest to access, we can't use because we don't live in their service district and they don't accept the "Michicard" which allows patrons to use other libraries. So, for the first time in our lives, we don't use the library...a situation I don't like at all, libraries being the one service we checked into first in every community we lived in all those years of Army moving (and don't I feel silly about all the times I complained of the 'inadequacy' of Army libraries!). Sorry about the mini-rant :) It hurts to not be able to use a half-way decent library! Holly who couldn't find the Bog book on any used or new book search <sigh> To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
