Other academic, public, school, and special libraries
- Patrons who live in a United States’ state, even if only for part of the year, are strongly urged to obtain a public library membership.
- This will give them free access to both the public library’s physical and digital resources.
- For example, the North Carolina public library system’s online resources website is NCLive.org, and it has extensive access to eBooks, audiobooks, videos, periodicals, etc.
- There are thousands of libraries of various types throughout the United States and other countries.
- Many of these allow on-site access and use of their physical and digital resources as well and possibly even allow checkout privileges with or without a fee.
- Patrons are encouraged to make use of these libraries as well.
- WorldCat.org is an excellent site to use when searching for an item when one does not know what library would have it.
- WorldCat searches thousands of libraries around the world and sorts the search results by proximity to the users' location.
- With this information, one can then contact the library to find out its policies regarding usage and borrowing of its physical and digital resources.