re: When was the last time one of you went to a library

Our library is a hub of activity for the small town I live in. Tens of thousands of volumes available for reservation / checkout from all regional libraries. lots of meeting rooms for civic / scout meetings, programs and a play area for kids, computers w interweb access for poor people, can bring your coffee in, the librarians have good literary advice (recently turned me on to John Connolly)...what's not to like?
IMO one of the BEST uses of my taxpayer money.

About 6 months ago I went to the Library to print a single page towards renewal of a professional license. Damned State of Louisiana is the only one out of my 4 states renewals that requires a print. It's also the only thing I ever used the home printer for so of course the inkjets dried out and clogged up.

Library didn't even charge me a nickel for the paper. A new printer would've cost about $50 plus the shopping time and would be another dead printer along with the old one by now too.

There was cute teen girl working (she took some instructions from older woman) at one desk and 2 fat nerd teens (boy and girl, or whatever they want to call themselves these days, transcishethemorroids??) doing something at a PC terminal. The old woman librarian was shopping online at the main desk.

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NY Public Library while I was in NYC.

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Now that's a Library.

Monday.

Ouachita Parish has one of the better library systems in the country. I remember reading they received the top rating a couple of years ago, five stars I think, and it's one of two in the state and fifty I believe in the country to receive it. The main branch shows it's age but by and large they are awesome.

If there's a something I want I have an app on my phone that I open up, look it up and press request, and the next morning it's there waiting on me to pick up. They have lots of new stuff and always have stuff for the kids. I can use the app to keep track of what I have out and if I want to renew it just click a button and it's done.

Last Friday and I'm going again tomorrow. I'm 25.

I went last week. I'll check out a game every now and then.

This evening.

Returned three CDs that I definitely didn't rip to my hard drive, and picked up the next Marvel Civil War graphic novel that I had held.

If you leverage your library, there's a ton to get out of it.

All the time. Free dvd's and novels

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Nearly every day