LUC: Library of Uncollected Collections: a wildly decentralized network
of personal libraries. With a phone call and an access code, a book
was mailed the next day. Even better, Volta discoverd, was picking
the book up in person, because the librarians were scholars of their
keep, repositories of distilled information. When they didn't know
the answer, they knew the best place to look.
-- Jim Dodge. Stone Junction, p. 63.