Salt Lake County has a fantastic library system. All of the libraries in the Salt Lake Valley have their catalogs linked, so if you local library doesn't have a book, you can simply look it up on their website and have it delivered to your local branch. They also have a lot of music CD's and DVD's to check out. Most of the movies I watch are checked out from the library. It's hard to beat free.
It's also cool because you can check your account online to see how many items you have out, and you can renew them from there as well. One disadvantage is that you can only check out 30 items at a time. However, Lisette, Miles, and Ian all have their own cards. So all together our family can have 150 items checked out from the library at any time. Of course we never really have that many out at once, but we easily get up to 120 items at any time.
It's really great for homeschooling, because we can get tons of books on history subjects, and lots of educational movies as well. We always have books around on the various subjects du jour. For example right now we have books on Islam, Catholicism, ancient Egypt, speech therapy, health and exercise, Yoga, Jesus, snakes, tarantulas, science for kids, and various easy readers and works of fiction.
However, today we discovered things had gone wrong, very wrong. Usually Melinda or I check all of the cards every Monday to make sure we have everything renewed or turned back in. Somehow we miscommunicated and I didn't check my card. Books on tape or movies are fined at $1 a day. So I had several of those overdue for a week. Ouch. Not to mention once your fines get so high, they don't let you renew anything. So Monday I went to the library near my office and coughed up over $47 in late dues. Dang! That would have covered almost 6 months in Netflix dues. So if you can't think of what to get me for Christmas, I hear you can give gift subscriptions to Netflix. Wink, wink, hint, hint ;)
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