Depending on where you live, some academic libraries give membership (possibly for a fee) to people living within a certain distance, as a kind of local outreac

Depending on where you live, some academic libraries give membership (possibly for a fee) to people living within a certain distance, as a kind of local outreach/PR gesture. May be worth a look at a few universities near you to see if that's the case. One extreme example is that anyone who lives in Texas can apply for access to any library in the "TexShare" system of public libraries, which includes the state university libraries. You first get a library card from your local public library, and then apply through the TexShare program for access to the university library you want: https://www.tsl.texas.gov/texshare/card https://www.tsl.texas.gov/texshare/card Generally none of these programs allow you to use the interlibrary loan service though, only resources the library itself has.