It's nice, well-stocked, and active. The director wants me on the board, but that will only happen when an existing member dies. One of my kids once worked there. But I rarely check out books anymore because my eyesight is poor, and I spend all day reading internet articles already.
The fact that 30 or so years went by and they didn't need new cards for those books told me that I lived in a barely literate town. But that was the county library. I also got books from the school library and the college library.
I went to the same library the whole time I was growing up. They used numbers instead of names. I eventually learned to check the card in each book, and if there was a 1600, that's means I had read it before. If there was a 1599, that means my mother had read it. I left town and moved back 15 years later, and the scheme still held up.
I recall reading that Shirley Temple celebrated two or three birthdays at the same times when she was a teenager. She didn't know her own true age until then. Her mother had lied about it to make her seem more precocious than she was.
Today I learned that Google Translate does not have a Klingon option, but it tried mightily anyway. It wasn't hard to find a service that would translate this, although it went to Spanish first.
But that was the county library. I also got books from the school library and the college library.
I left town and moved back 15 years later, and the scheme still held up.