For people on limited incomes who may be reluctant to spend money on books, I have found that the Lancashire library service is doing a good job
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It does not provide for people in Blackburn with Darwen, but for the rest of us -
-you can search for a book by title and/or author and see which branch libraries have it on the shelf, and if out on loan, see when it is due back.
- you can reserve a book and get it moved to your local branch for collection
- you can renew it twice on line