Do you use your local library?

M.T

Well do you? Or was it just a resource for when you were in schooling?

I am just wondering because I went back to mine after a 9 year absence and was invigorated by the amount of resources there.

http://www.library.ie/weblog/


http://www.dublincity.ie/RecreationandCulture/libraries/Library%20Services/pages/libraryservices.aspx

Obviously I used the Dublin one for handiness but I do believe there are other cities in Ireland besides that.

So do any of you lot use your library?

ntlbell

went back recently hadn't been for a long time.

was pretty impressed and been able to renew and order books online etc is very handy

john concannon

I think I was in a library when I was 7 but I was scared off by some of the people in there because they were arse-ugly. I hear they are good all the same though.

Saibh

No, rather buy my own books

Senna

l-i-b-r-a-r-y???
what the hells that?

eVeNtInE

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omb0wyn5ehpij9

Nope, never!

Neamhshuntasach

Haven't been in Ireland in a good few months but yeah i've used it for years. I've read about 3 books a week since i was a kid. Running out of stuff to read though because i don't read non fiction. At the moment i just read whatever is in hostels.

banshee_bones

ha ha last library i was a member of was college do keep meaning to join the galway one though. Cant afford to keep buying books! one since im unemployed and two its such a pain packing them all up whenever i move house!

hollypink

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I know what you mean about owning your own books, but I go through books so quickly that it gets expensive so I love the library. So much choice and all free!!! (Unless you forget to return items on time and get fined )

HoorayForPeePee

Yep, absolutely.

Better to read a book than browse the net aimlessly, I reckon. I've done a fair bit of both in me time.

M.T

banshee_bones wrote: »

ha ha last library i was a member of was college do keep meaning to join the galway one though. Cant afford to keep buying books! one since I'm unemployed and two its such a pain packing them all up whenever i move house!

These days they are more than books! Internet for free and you can download books on line etc.

I suppose my point was you cannot believe how much they have changed but people don't know it

oztots

Unless i'm looking for something technical related for coursework, no.

I download books myself and read away at the computer, or print them off in work...

As far as the free internet goes, i do alot in front of my computer that would get my membership revoked fairly rapid.

Shacklebolt

Not since the time I tried to photocopy my rear end :pac:

Abi

Love teh library. Have been a bookworm since national school. I read everything and at any chance I get. Ive a slight course addiction, so the library has come in very handy.
Get a card kids, the library raWks!

Aisling(",)

yeah i go to my local library at least 2/3 times a month.
i couldnt afford to keep myself in books

brianthebard

I did in Sligo. I live right across from the one in Galway but I've never been in. i have the uni one though so meh.

Dave!

No, every time I've been to Tallaght library there's been pneumatic drills outside/inside, telephones ringing constantly, and children crying in the play area (yes, there was a childrens play area about 50 feet from the study area).

It's a f*cking nightmare.

Haven't had reason to go since my Leaving Cert thankfully, but they apparently changed it a good bit.

jos28

I use my local library regularly. Its a quiet place to study,it has books that I just need to get quotes from but not ones that I want to spend money on and a great source of local knowledge.

Call Me Jimmy

books are for geeks and nerds and geek-nerds (the offspring of a 1 geek 1 nerd couple).

sdanseo

Gave up the library when we got broadband. That and now I buy books rather than borrow them; uneconomical as it may be.

I do use the college one a good bit though for photocopying, printing etc.

samhail

which reminds me i still have a CD to return hmmm - i wonder if the library is still open.

I remember getting the sheet music and playing music on their keyboards they had there the odd time.

Twee.

I used it loads when I was younger. Loved going, but that faded out as I got older. In sixth year I used the Rathmines and Ballyfermot libraries for study. The renew online is very handy. I had a shed-load of books out for my special research in history and it was great to just extend the time online.

cmcsoft

I used to when I was younger but haven't now in years. When I left college I started buying a lot of reference books and then just started buying everything online so stopped using the library.

I might give a wander back, I left more out of laziness than anything else

Spyral

has no selection, too far out of the way cramped. no desks.

Capt'n Midnight

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

books are for geeks and nerds and geek-nerds (the offspring of a 1 geek 1 nerd couple).

do you mean book or codex ?

Lola123

I'm not even sure where my local library IS!!! Quite a sorry state of affairs really.

Holsten

No, I use the one at my University.

My local one is a well run and very nice place though.

emeraldstar

Ha ha, i used to but my local library probably hates my family now. Myself, my dad and my brother and sister used to go together every 2 weeks or so, but since the last time we went we haven't returned the books. So there are about 10 books floating around our house with a return date of September 2001 on them... no one has had the courage to bring them back now, and I don't think anyone ever will :-/

Berty

I use my local libraries car park because they have a strong 10mb internet wifi connection.

6th

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

books are for geeks and nerds and geek-nerds (the offspring of a 1 geek 1 nerd couple).

Are you suggesting that geeks and or nerds have sex? ...... in real life?

phasers

I used to but now I owe them a lot of money because I kept putting off bringing a book back

book smarts

Public libraries in Ireland, like so much else, are a joke. There is no rule of silence, staff have loud casual conversations wherever they like. Screaming children run from the play area into the "study" area (why is there a play area in the first place?). The seating is inadequate, badly laid out. Most of the books are fiction, the reference sections are pathetic. The opening hours are ridiculous, with a ridiculously long lunch break. The staff are rude and obnoxious. Providing internet access is argueably a waste of money, considering most people use it for email or news. Stupid photographic and art exhibitions take up space and money.

It's trying to be more of a community centre now because the library authority, like all the other authorities, decided to overstep its boundaries, stuffed full of its own self importance, and padded out its budget with bullsht in case it lost funding. No wonder half the country never reads. But they have "computer skills", right? lol

scop

This is something of a bugbear for me. I am familiar with two Dublin libraries in Tallaght and Kevin Street. In both the quality of books is weak although the Tallaght selection is a little better. In Kevin Street there is nowhere to sit! The one decent desk is always occupied by a writers/multicultural exhcange/etc group which are, in theory, good things, but in reality charades.

Tallaght Library has no noise control, seems to be constantly under some kind of construction/development, but otherwise not so bad. Not so bad relative to say Walkinstown or Kevin Street. Relative to the German libraries I had a chance to visit it is sucky.

I don't blame the council for not putting in too much effort considering nobody goes to the damn things, but nobody goes because they suck. The classic circle!

I am fortunate to attend a University so it is no longer a problem, but they remain a national embarassment.

Mimikyu

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Epic Tissue

I use my college one. Used a local one a lot when I was younger though. I voted no.

anti-venom

I've started using it again in the past few years. I hadn't since I was about eighteen when I got a book with two pages stuck together with a massive snot.:eek: They've improved no end though and are a great resource.

cuckoo

Use my local one regularly, like being able to choose books at random. I'd usually take out 8 books, at least 2 of which i'll return the next day as the first chapter was awful. When i buy books i'm more cautious in my choice, and would feel like i have to keep reading it to give it a proper go due to the cost.

I like the local community centre aspect of it - the noticeboard, lots of information leaflets, the readers groups and the local history lectures. It's nice to know what's going on in the area.