In article valid,
Lazarus Cooke wrote:

We had a discussion about this in November, when Bill Claspy startled
me by commenting that

the notion of a private lending
library is strange for those of us in the land of the free and the
brave...

But of course libraries, like everything else, are just as private in
the usa as in the uk

see

http://www.nysoclib.org/

Lazarus

Sorry about the double posting. My new usenet client's playing up.

L