When is the last time you used a library?
Just remember the important thing we were taught by Arthur: having fun isn’t hard when you have a library card!
A PUBLIC library? It’s been years. I used to basically live at the library when I was a kid. I do, however, visit my own library of over 3000 books with new title rotated in routinely at least once or twice a week.
I borrow audiobooks from my local library via my phone ~every 2 weeks.
Went there today actually. I have 4 kids and 3 of them are book worms so we basically live at the library. Books, free wifi, play area, reading nooks ect. The library has everything!
Libraries are one of those things that would be illegal if they were invented today.
Not too long ago since the kid is off to college. But it was long long ago
I think of library in an entirely different way these days. A library (in the classical Miriam-Webstery “visitable” sense) bringings me to my happy place. From the time I was four we went once a week, after piano lessons with Miss Eastwood, to the public library. Checking out real books was magical. I learned the love of books and the door to wide world was pushed open. These days I rarely to go to the Dickensian edifice to feed my brain meats. With the nearly un-plumbale depths of the cyber sphere at my beck and call., I feast at home. To live is to read.

If by library you mean video streaming service, then almost daily.

I am grateful for the physical library that supports the digital one I utilized for research projects. I value physical books and believe they are needed for society, especially if things go dark. However, I am a tried and tested audible learner. Being an audible learner means that as long as I can take advantage of text-to-audio tools, I will.

Online lending of e-books for the win! Plus searching of scientific articles.
Loved going when I was a kid and in high school. Then I started going to used bookstores. University book sales!!! ![]()

For some reason that’s where my closest and cheapest notary is, so I’m there a couple times a year.
The internets are my library, and the Google is my librarian.
When I was very young, our neighborhood did not have an actual library. We had a bookmobile that was parked outside the largest grocery in the area every other Saturday. My mom brought all three of us religiously and she ordered and returned her selections there or at the main library downtown. A few years later, our area got a branch library with summer programs for grade schoolers that we went to every year.
It was only after my mom died and my brother was returning some overdue items that we were told that my mom was the single biggest user of that branch. When planning where to locate the branch, they were strongly in favor of placing it next to the high school but ended up putting it half way between the high school & my mother. Two years after she passed, they did move it across from the HS.
Always feel at home in a library & like to be located within walking distance. Am 5 blocks away today.
I don’t read (books).
I do sometimes read instructions.
I also read articles and studies.
If you’re always reading books, you never have time to make your own ideas.
I borrow audiobooks, e-books, and occasional movies 3 or 4 times a month. Hoopla limits me to 4 items a month (except for months with bonus borrows), and GMLC (Libby) has long waits for lots of titles.
The last time I was physically in a library was about a month ago. The library has been my happy place for a while, and now it’s also my kids’ happy place.
I used library’s all through my school years.
You’re never to old to learn something new!
I just refreshed my knowledge of biology and genetics.
I like being a lifelong learner.
I even have my own library in my house.
Mostly earth sciences.
Never bored…
I bring my family for life support. Aka. Air conditioning
Not since these were a thing.
In fact, I can still remember the smell of the cards as I flipped though them! Amazing the things our brains decide to remember like it was yesterday. ![]()
If Dynamic-Link Library (DLL used in Windows) or Frameworks (Cocoa) or dylibs (BSD) for OSX count then we all are happy and perhaps oblivious users of some unsung hero programer’s code library. No late fees and no guilt!