Additionally, a Queens library card is available to anyone world-wide for $50 annually. I have a membership in Canada to access their digital library.
replyBrooklyn too. (Bronx and Staten Island being served only by NYPL, the “Manhattan” one)
replyAnd the consequence of this is that I have to get three different library cards haha.
replyAnother consequence is that on the Libby app you have better chances to find something available, and each one’s limits are separate!
replyThe tbree systems in NYC also serve the entire state, not just the city. Any NYS resident can get a card at each. I do and use the e book systems for all at the same time even though I rarely go into the city these days.
replySeems that even as three separate systems, they'd at least just let a card from any of them work at all three. Or issue a single unified card and let that be the only point of commonality between them, if all other operations being independent is important to them
replyKind of like how many regions will have a unified transit payment card, even if it covers a half dozen completely independent adjacent transit systems