Libraries

[Godwynn]

I have recently rediscovered these magnificent buildings.

My question is, do you go to them regularly, and if so how often are you there?

 

[puglover]

I used to go there to read very often, about every few days. Now that college has started up, though, I don't get as much time for reading what I want to read.

 

[skadistic]

Once in the last 12 years or so. And that was to photocopy stuff. I use to skip school and go get a good education at the library.

 

[Red Door]

I might go to get a book for school, or photocopy something. But that's pretty much it.

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

Usually once or twice a year, that will change as I enter college I'm sure.

 

[The Yankee]

I've spent time in the library to kill time between classes. Quiet environment once I got upstairs, could read or do whatever I wished. If I had my laptop, I could hook that into the internet. Or if I felt like a pervert, I could just watch those college-aged girls walking to and from the building from the windows above.

But on a serious note, unless I was out eating or I found a person to hang with, if I have a two-hour gap, it's a pretty solid place to be. If I'm tired, I could just fall asleep in there.

So I suppose I'll answer "weekly" even though it may be twice weekly (with two visits on each day, given the current schedule).

However, when it comes time to do heavier research, I find the extensive collection of the Main Research Library at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street to be my source for contemporary and more obscure texts (mostly for history).

 

[skadistic]

Does working at the Library of Congress or National Archives count?

If it does I could go from never to yearly.

 

[Shylock]

I often do a quick scan of the library for people I know and leave, it's the first week of college and I've only found one I've known to some degree.

I'll probably spend more time as time goes on.

The public library I just pop in to pick up a reserve.

 

[History_Buff]

I used to kill a lot of time in one back when I was in Highschool, and there was a city library connected to it, but now I simply can't be bothered.

 

[CaptainF]

I like libraries.

I go to my local one to get checkout free CDs ormanga, as well as the occasional real book.

What I don't like is their association with the collection agencies.

One time I checked out about 15 manga comics (not a lot, since you can breeze through them in about 30 mins), and they were overdue about 2 days. The dumbasses at the library immediately assumed I had lost them and thus had a collection agency bill me for over 300 dollars. I gave them back, but they still made me pay 10 dollars for the price of sending the letter.

Man, what a jerk move eh? That's like me paying my executioner for the cost of the bullet.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Save a tree - burn a book!

I used to go about monthly to borrow books. But nowadays there's not much time for reading.

 

[Japanrocks12]

I like libraries. Every day after school, it serves as a waiting point until one of my parents can pick me up. While I'm there I can read, do homework, study, and just browse, think, and learn completely uninhibited and unmolested. Yes, the library has become part of my soul I love it.

 

[downtown]

Before college, I went to one about every month, maybe a little more often. It was a great place to get music (since local stores didnt have the music I liked), and I could grab a magazine that I couldn't afford a suscription to.

In college, I went every other day. I have to do a lot of research and paperwriting, and its also a place where I wont be distracted by friends, or my computer.

OSU's library is under construction right now. I've got to figure out where in this hugeass campus all my books are now...

 

[El_Machinae]

Libraries are fantastic for getting some older books. Chances are, you can get a passing knowledge of some topic by getting a couple related books out of the library.

I can't use them to get detailed knowledge on a topic, though. They just don't have the proper books most of the time. Chances are, the books at the library are a stage less advanced than you could find at Chapters.

For fiction, they're great: especially classic fiction!
And magazines, too. I often use the library to glance through a newer magazine that I wouldn't buy.

 

[Murky]

We had a library only a few blocks away when I was a kid. I learned a lot of things there. I first learned about human reproduction in the public library.

Now, I just order books from Amazon then sell them after I'm done with them.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I never go to libraries.

 

[Godwynn]

Save a tree - burn a book!

If you want to save a tree, don't burn a book.

OSU's library is under construction right now. I've got to figure out where in this hugeass campus all my books are now...

It is the same thing at SIU. Morris Library won't be completed until 2011 or so.

 

[Ansar]

I go to library about once/twice a month.

Usually it's either to get a book for a class or to renew it.

 

[wicshade]

I go to the library about 4 times a week, but i am often doing research for a paper or essay aswell as studying, i almost never read for enjoyment.

 

[SG-17]

I go about once a week, mostly to return/take out books.