>It would be great if public research libraries were more common - to be honest, I don't even know if such places exist. I don't know about elsewhere, but ther

>It would be great if public research libraries were more common - to be honest, I don't even know if such places exist. I don't know about elsewhere, but there's absolutely nothing stopping you from walking into any library that I've been to in the University of California system. You have to jump through some hoops to check things out as a non-student, but the access to information is there.