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.
