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Steal This Book? Don't Bother
By Candace Lombardi
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: July 23, 2007, 4:00 AM PDT
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When it comes to outsmarting the content establishment, your library may
be your best accomplice.

Libraries are offering more free search services, database access,
articles, photos, eBooks, audiobooks, music and museum passes than ever.
Chances are you are buying, subscribing to, or stealing something you can
get for free with a library card.

The hardest part of using the wealth of free sources out there may be
finding them. There are easy ways to locate these sources, but few people
use them, according to Gary Price, founder and editor of the ResourceShelf
blog and director of online resources at Ask.com.

While there are no hard numbers on usage of such free services, several
resource specialists and librarians echo Price's comments.

"People who gather national statistics about libraries have started adding
that, but it will take awhile for the libraries to aggregate the data and
respond," said Leslie Burger, director of the Princeton Public Library in
Princeton, N.J., and past president of the American Library Association.

But there is some evidence that people are beginning to access their local
library home page more frequently. For instance, Massachusetts public
libraries, which recently began tracking electronic access, report (PDF)
that they received more than 248 million hits on their home pages in 2006.

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