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Re:The rise of remote work may reshape college towns by Jtsummers on Friday June 04, 2021 @12:26PM (#27395285)
That's incredibly unfortunate. Is this also true for local K-12 students? In high school I lived near universities and recall my parents [0] taking me to the library to do research/reading on various topics. Including checking out books. I never did that as an adult without any kind of school affiliation, though. Mostly because until recently I didn't live near a university (or near enough for it to make sense to drive to).

[0] I didn't have a driver's license, too young at the first high school, and insurance was too much for my parents or me to afford at the second.

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Re:The rise of remote work may reshape college towns by ghaff on Friday June 04, 2021 @12:47PM (#27395573)
At my undergrad school, which was pretty open for physical access pre-COVID (who knows what happens now), I'd need to pay for a borrowing card to actually check out a book. And electronic access seems to have been tightened up. You used to be able to access most of their electronic catalog from a public terminal on the local network but you couldn't seem to do that last time I tried maybe about 18 months ago. (It wasn't a big deal so I didn't feel like bothering a librarian.)

And some universities will definitely require ID to enter the library.

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