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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 3562652" data-attributes="member: 2093">I'm a librarian in Texas (Waco, which is pretty much centrally located between Dallas and Austin). We're a City-county library, which means the city funds us from taxes, but we serve the whole county. There are other libraries in other towns in the county, and we have a sort of reciprocal borrowing program (generally, they borrow from us for their patrons). We have four libraries, all within the city limits, so county residents do have to drive to reach us. We have full interbranch borrowing - usually one day to get things back and forth, and full (free) interlibrary loan for materials coming from outside the system. Our catalog is online, and patrons can place holds, check their accounts and even renew books online. We've just started in the past six months or so to have e-books and downloadable e-audiobooks. Texas libraries all have access to an excellent suite of online databases for research (journals, newspapers and much material of other sorts) in library or remotely. Libraries are fun!</blockquote>