Interlibrary Loan

At times, while I have been writing this column, I have suggested books to read that are not in the Westmoreland Library Network countywide collection. This should not deter you from seeking to borrow a copy alternately from the wider lending system that is known as Interlibrary Loan or ILL. For example, one that I previously mentioned is Stillman Drake’s “Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography” (Dover 1978); it is not in the WLN collection. Another is David Diringer’s “The Book Before Printing: Ancient, Medieval and Oriental” (Dover 1982). These might be seen as too esoteric for individual small town Library collections, and therefore for the collective WLN catalogue, but they can still be borrowed usually from elsewhere, including from outside of the state, through your home Librar…