Do you use your local library?

M.T · 04-01-2009 12:01AM #1

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 · 04-01-2009 12:02AM

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 · 04-01-2009 12:07AM

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 · 04-01-2009 12:08AM

No, rather buy my own books

Senna · 04-01-2009 12:09AM

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

eVeNtInE · 04-01-2009 12:09AM

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omb0wyn5ehpij9 · 04-01-2009 12:11AM

Nope, never!

Neamhshuntasach · 04-01-2009 12:11AM

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 · 04-01-2009 12:25AM

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 · 04-01-2009 12:26AM

eVeNtInE wrote: »

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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

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HoorayForPeePee · 04-01-2009 12:28AM

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 · 04-01-2009 12:29AM

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 · 04-01-2009 12:45AM

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 · 04-01-2009 12:51AM

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

Abi · 04-01-2009 01:02AM

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(",) · 04-01-2009 01:12AM

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

brianthebard · 04-01-2009 01:17AM

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! · 04-01-2009 01:20AM

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 · 04-01-2009 02:32AM

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 · 04-01-2009 02:35AM

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

sdanseo · 04-01-2009 02:50AM

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 · 04-01-2009 03:01AM

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. · 04-01-2009 03:08AM

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 · 04-01-2009 03:14AM

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 · 04-01-2009 03:25AM

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

Capt'n Midnight · 04-01-2009 03:53AM

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 · 04-01-2009 04:56AM

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

Holsten · 04-01-2009 05:58AM

No, I use the one at my University.

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

emeraldstar · 04-01-2009 05:58AM

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 :-/