nicola s

they may not be accessible for a variety of reasons, transport, communication skills, maybe even the noise of them for some people (libraries are not the quiet places they used to be)

At least if you are ever in Edinburgh you have a list of where you can access them though

you just need to provide some details and 2 forms of ID (from what I remember) and then you can have your 30 mins of free internet daily, with limited viewing. (this may have been updated in the last few years).

neilcumming

My brother isnt very computer savvy anyway but he and his family have never had a landline even before cell phones and when he was able to work never had a house phone .The little things we take for granted there are 1000s of people in Scotland who have never had these things and we are supposed to be a modern european country !?

WEBlue

Only 30 mins? Our lovely UK library in the city centre allows 1 hour of free computer use per day. One can't get much done in a half hour...

scrubbedexpat099

I do not have a land line, many people I know do not.

Nutek

I wish I didn't. Work in progress.

nicola s

that was a few years ago I did say it might by updated now.
from what I remember you stood in the queue asked for a card for the computers, used your id number then logged on. you could not internet shop or go on certain sites and you were quite close to other users not idea for many but better than not having.

robin1234

I was able to get a library card for the Norfolk Libraries last winter, they are very accommodating to visitors. The way it works there, sessions are one hour long, from when you login with your library card credentials. You can automatically renew for an additional 15 minutes. Then, you can ask a staff member to authorize you for another session, which she will presumably do if no one is waiting. So there is no daily limit, just limited session lengths to enable others to get online if the library is busy...

scrubbedexpat099

Did they have wi fi?

robin1234

In Norfolk, the central library, the Millennium Library in Norwich, has wifi, but most of the branch libraries just have desktop computers that you can use. I talked to a few librarians over there and they are hoping to extend the wifi to all the branches soon. I would say that is pretty typical of the situation in the UK.

neilcumming

Wee bit of news on the oil exploration being blocked on the Clyde by the tories of course!
Tories blocked oil boom in the Clyde, Heseltine admits - Politics / News & Views / The Sunday Post

robin1234

Isn't that good news, though? Unless the wicked English crept in under the cover of night and extracted the oil secretly, the oil is still there!

neilcumming

They have been telling us for years the oil is running out!What they going to say now

robin1234

"They" and "us" ??

civilservant

Um.... that's just a fact. Look at the production figures.

neilcumming

London politicos and us scots!