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Your library card already has a monthly subscription, it's called taxes
by savant_penguin 5y ago
Your library card already has a monthly subscription, it's called taxes
- sovietmudkipz 5y agoIt’s more of an annual subscription.
- shkkmo 5y agoNot really, you don't have to prove you paid taxes to use a library. That's a pretty big difference.
- Kon-Peki 5y agoYou have to "prove" that you live within a geographic boundary to use library services beyond the basic "come inside, browse and read" - because all property within that boundary is paying taxes. Most libraries are relatively lax on the proof because they see it as a public service. But they don't have to be, and you would expect that a public library operated by a for-profit company will be far more strict than others.
- justin66 5y agoMy state has some of the best libraries in the world and the only requirement to get a library card is to reside in the state. That's a big geographic boundary. Once a person has the card, a lot of interlibrary loan and online borrowing possibilities exist. I imagine a for-profit library would be largely frozen out of our interlibrary loan system and all the reciprocity involved in membership, but... maybe not? I don't know, but I suspect that this model of deprofessionalisation is going to be limited to libraries in small towns and municipalities.
- Kon-Peki 5y agoA state-wide system is a really nice thing. You are lucky!
- SamoyedFurFluff 5y agoThe great thing about a library is that you can use it even if you’re too poor to pay taxes, so it really isn’t a subscription.
- _dain_ 5y agoYou'll have to pay the monthly subscription and your taxes will stay the exact same.