One of the great public services provided by the State of Connecticut is called Connecticard. This is a statewide cooperative program that allows any Connecticut resident to use their hometown library card at every public library in Connecticut providing equity of access to library materials statewide. It certainly is one more good reason to have a library card (although I do wonder what percentage of the population has one and question why not).

As a result of Connecticard, the state-wide library program serves to make the combined materials of all of the Connecticut public libraries available as one very large and extremely comprehensive collection. If one desires some obscure book or other material only available at some library on the far side of the state, one can order it and then pick-up and return that book through one's local library. There may be some delay, but in due course the material will reach the borrower. Alternatively, one can walk into any library throughout the State of Connecticut and use one's library card to check out materials on the spot.