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Novel idea for putting your home library to work:\u00a0 BiblioFair | Book trading, exchanging and swapping made easier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s interesting to me that this concept of home library exchange highlights the inadequacies of libraries to meet patron demand.\u00a0 Before libraries existed in this country home library exchange would have been the only option to borrow something new, at least among those who could afford to have a book collection in the first place.\u00a0 From the site:<\/p>\n

Is the book you are looking for too expensive or always unavailable in your local library? Would you like to save both money and nature and rather buy a used one?<\/p>\n

BiblioFair helps you find publications available for sale, donation or lending in home libraries located close to you!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t know if this would work for me, since when I weed a book at home I want it out of the house quick, and the books I want to keep around…I’m not very good at sharing. I just hear my dad over and over again in my head: never lend something you actually want back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Novel idea for putting your home library to work:\u00a0 BiblioFair | Book trading, exchanging and swapping made easier. It’s interesting to me that this concept of home library exchange highlights the inadequacies of libraries to meet patron demand.\u00a0 Before libraries existed in this country home library exchange would have been the only option to borrow… Continue reading BiblioFair<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-5168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-librarians"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1498,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/07\/22\/in-library-ebook-lending-program-expands-to-1000-libraries-internet-archive-blogs\/","url_meta":{"origin":5168,"position":0},"title":"In-Library eBook Lending Program Expands to 1,000 Libraries | Internet Archive Blogs","author":"leems","date":"July 22, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The internet archive finally did it - or did it while I wasn't looking.\u00a0 If you are not aware of the internet archive then I suggest checking it out.\u00a0 There are tons of public domain books, recordings, and videos there as well as the way-back machine.\u00a0 Ever wonder what a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3618,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/05\/02\/library-archives\/","url_meta":{"origin":5168,"position":1},"title":"Library Archives","author":"leems","date":"May 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Did you know that Libraries have collections of truly interesting and rare materials?\u00a0 That these libraries often digitize and create online collections accessible to anyone?\u00a0 That because of library websites\/catalogs and their interaction with search engines most of this material is impossible to simply stumble upon?\u00a0 Allow me to help\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6501,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2016\/04\/11\/smells-like-library-by-tommy-kovac\/","url_meta":{"origin":5168,"position":2},"title":"Smells Like Library by Tommy Kovac","author":"leems","date":"April 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"On my last indie comics mining trip in Etsy I bought:\u00a0 Smells Like Library v. 2 Funny Library Comics from the tommykovac Etsy store.\u00a0\u00a0 Afterwards, I carried around the awesome bookmark it came with to remind me to talk about this a little more. 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