> > > > Now there's another problem. I live in Loudon County but only a couple of miles from Knox County. I cannot use the libraries on the other side of the county like because I don't have a Knox County address and presumably don't pay taxes there. Bull-oney! Most of the areas where we shop are in Knox County where the sales tax is about 8%, including the so-called local option sales tax. As a result we pay more taxes than some people who live there. If I lived in a trailer in Knox County and shopped at the big mall in Anderson County, I could check out all the books I wanted and still pay almost no Knox County taxes at all. If they are going to call them "public" libraries, they should be open to the public. I wonder how much state and federal money goes into Knox County libraries?
> > > > Howard
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> > > I agree with you wholeheartedly. I sometimes use what they call interlibrary loans to access materials from other libraries. Sometimes the materials come from the University of Tennessee libraries. Please read the Library Friends Lecture presented by the acclaimed late novelist Richard Marius, presented on March 15, 1994 to celebrate the addition of the two-millionth volume to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville libraries. I found it very interesting indeed!
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> > Sorry, I gave the wrong Link URL. This is it!
> > Calvin Lane
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> Ok, now I found it! 'Cuse me, while I go back and read it.
> Howard

I guess the understatement of the century could be that Richard had a way with words!

Wouldn't it have been sad if Richard had been denied the use of a library just because he lived across the county line?

I was also pleased that he mentioned Roy G. Cardwell. Roy G. was cut from the same cloth as Richard Marius. They were both fine gentlemen. Roy G. died just this summer.
Howard