University libraries were like magic gardens back in the day, and they generally weren't overly picky who used them (sometimes it helped to have a university ID

University libraries were like magic gardens back in the day, and they generally weren't overly picky who used them (sometimes it helped to have a university ID, but usually it could be any university, and expired was fine)... In the early '90s I was unemployed, and so spent a few months basically just going to engineering library of the local university (University of Washington) every day and reading journal articles all day long. A very pleasant memory... :]