http://www.familymanlibrarian.com/2006/01/24/home-delivery-for-libraries/ A blog about family, technology, and libraries Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.familymanlibrarian.com/2006/01/24/home-delivery-for-libraries/comment-page-1/#comment-1283 Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:54:39 +0000 http://familymanlibrarian.com/?p=390#comment-1283 The public libraries in Orange County, FL (where my parents live) have been doing the home delivery thing for years, and it's a free service. I'm not sure how the return process works, although I think you can send it back by mail as well. My mom loves it. I see the downside being that not as many people have a need to visit a library anymore, what with all the online resources available. That makes me sad because I have many wonderful memories associated with libraries (including once when I was so engrossed in a book that I didn't know they had closed the library, and I didn't even notice until several hours later when my mom figured out what happened and got one of the librarians to come back and open the library to let me out). The public libraries in Orange County, FL (where my parents live) have been doing the home delivery thing for years, and it’s a free service. I’m not sure how the return process works, although I think you can send it back by mail as well. My mom loves it. I see the downside being that not as many people have a need to visit a library anymore, what with all the online resources available. That makes me sad because I have many wonderful memories associated with libraries (including once when I was so engrossed in a book that I didn’t know they had closed the library, and I didn’t even notice until several hours later when my mom figured out what happened and got one of the librarians to come back and open the library to let me out).

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