From: Giles Orr via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org>
On Tue, 7 Apr 2026 at 05:54, CAREY SCHUG via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
1. you can likely go to your local public library and fax documents for free (i have done this). You may be able to do this from home, but that will require a library card, I am sure.
You haven't done it in Toronto - or if you have, the staff were helping you above and beyond the call of duty.
Carey is in the US. It's great that he participates in GTALUG, but some of his experiences will not carry over to Toronto. If I were to guess, each library system might be different. Certainly the TPL tries to innovate to become more relevant. At this point, FAX service might not be innovation. I remember when Xeroxing was new and expensive. In 1967 or 1968 I used a copier at the old TPL Central Reference Library at College and St. George. I paid something like $0.25 a page! Real money then. It was some chemically thing, not Xerox. (I now have that book from which I copied a paper. You can too <https://archive.org/details/programmingsyste0000saul>)