If you count the school library where I wait in between classes, then about three times a week. (It isn't a very good library, though, mostly just reference books) If you mean a big public library, then on average I guess monthly, although I've been going more lately - twice in the span of two weeks.
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Forgot to mention that I also visit the college library online fairly frequently, as they have subscriptions to quite a few databases. However, the one I use almost 100% of the time is Lexis Nexis.
Irish Caesar
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I like to go to the local public library when I'm home (and request all sorts of stuff from the area libraries; it's free!), but the library here is mostly technical journals and the like, and it's on the other end of campus, and i have access to databases at other points on campus, so I'm pretty much never there if I can help it now.
JohnRM
Don't make me destroy you
I usually make an appearance, at least once a year. Since the Federal Government started keeping tabs on what combination of books one is taking out, I haven't found myself patronizing such establishments as much as I had.
Godwynn
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You don't remember those librarians that were complaining about such things a few years back?
JohnRM
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When did this start?
PATRIOT Act.
Although it did take a couple years for people to notice that tidbit...given how absolutely massive that bill is.
JohnRM
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Hell, it even took a couple of years for our legislators to read it. I wouldn't be surprised if there are some who voted for it, who still haven't.
Irish Caesar
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Although the USA PATRIOT Act granted this power, I don't think it has ever been utilized; although the government has requested library records once since the act was passed, they did not invoke the Act itself, but a different existing piece of legislation.
JohnRM
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Of course, you'd never know it, if it were, cause the act allows the government to do this without your knowledge and levies penalties on library employees who release this information.
Swedishguy
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Every single day. 
carmen510
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Have you ever heard of the high school student in the US who got arrested for taking out a copy of Mao's 'Little Red Book'? I believe it was in 2004-2006.
Irish Caesar
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No, but I'm guessing that probably wasn't prosecuted under the USA PATRIOT Act, either.
And students have a lot fewer rights from the government than most Americans; whether that should be the case or not is something that other threads here have beaten to death already.
It is about a mile walk for me, each way, and I can only check out what I can carry in my backpack. So I go every 3 weeks (the amount of time I can have a book checked out) and get about 4 at once (the amount I can carry with me). I have been doing this since May, when I left my last job. It has been quite nice, I have read a lot of history (especially on World War I) and discovered the Discworld series. I actually go as soon as I have finished all the books I have, so at any given moment I have in my apartment at least one library book I haven't finished reading.
dwaxe
is not a fanatic
I go once a week or more, normally to check out books.
Miles Teg
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I visit the library every week or two. Good Times
Oh blast it. I rented out Mein Kampf once, and that book about how hitler could have won WWII, and there was that Rommel biography....
. Ah well, got to go, a big black van just pulled up outside my house.
Oh blast it. I rented out Mein Kampf once, and that book about how hitler could have won WWII, and there was that Rommel biography....
. Ah well, got to go, a big black van just pulled up outside my house.Spoiler :
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