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I think that ILL should be a last resort, for the rare item.Obviously I check the local system (13 libraries including three university libraries) first when I want something, but if they don't have it, ILL isn't a first or last resort, it's the ONLY resort.
At this point, I visit the library in/near my hometown (Owings Mills, Md, the library's actually in Pikesville which is right down the road), and it's maybe 25% oldsters reading and scanning the shelves and getting online to do research and send emails; 5% tots riffling through the kids section or tagging along with thier parents; 10% 20/30 somethings doing the same thing; and 60% teens getting online to check out whatever porn they can get away with and myspace and play videogames, LOUDLY.
― Ray Cummings (skateboardr), Thursday, 4 January 2007 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link