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# START HERE — Your Card, and How to Use It
- URL: https://yellowtent.onehandclappingrecords.com/start-here-your-card-and-how-to-use-it/
- Published: 2026-07-06T10:24:21.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-06T10:24:21.000Z
- Description: The library is a room, and the room is real. Everything worth knowing, in order.
- Author: Simon Ore

You hold (or are about to hold) a card at the Yellow Tent Library. Here is everything worth knowing, in the order you'll need it.

**1\. The library is a room, and the room is real.** The reading happens in [THE YELLOW TENT](https://onehandclappingrecords.com/tent.html?ref=yellowtent.onehandclappingrecords.com) — pillows, lamp, record player, shelf. This site you're standing on is only the front desk: it takes applications, keeps the bulletins, and holds your keys.

**2\. Research Fellows and Patrons: turn your key.** Your welcome post — *The Fellow's Key* or *The Patron's Key*, filed below — contains a link. Open it once in your browser. From then on, the bookshelf in the tent opens for you: every unlocked volume, read there or taken home. Patrons' keys open more than shelves.

**3\. Reader's Card holders:** your monthly accessions and lyric books arrive here as posts, and the tent is yours to wander — the pillows don't check credentials.

**4\. The Acquisition Notices** arrive by mail when something new enters the collection — two volumes on the first of every month. Unsubscribing is allowed; the desk will pretend not to be hurt.

*The tent is quietest at 3 AM. Start anywhere.*