START HERE — Your Card, and How to Use It
The library is a room, and the room is real. Everything worth knowing, in order.
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 — 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.