Fair enough, 49 countries of the almost 200 on the planet have Inter-Library loans.  Seems it may be about on-par with how many countries &#x2F; populations are without internet access.  However, if we were to measure how much of the 49 countries&#x27; population truly had reasonable access to a library (within reasonable distance of their home) versus the total population who has access to the internet, I think we&#x27;d probably see that the internet is a far more sustainable, cheaper medium through which to transfer information.<p>I may be mistaken on the above, but Google and Facebook (among others) have initiated large projects to bring internet access to all humans on the planet.  I have not heard of similar projects (on similar scale) to bring more libraries to the world&#x27;s population. (maybe I&#x27;ve missed this).<p>I agree it&#x27;s with the best of intentions that Inter Library Loans exist, but it seems quite dated in its thinking and really I see no reason to perpetuate this model.  There are plenty of technologies out there these days which would allow digitization of media without consequences of rampant piracy.