I was recently ordering books from our library’s site when I noticed a catagory for languages to the side; it was simply begging me to click it! Who knew the library carried an abundance of great language learning material?! I’m reading a few that I’ve checked out right now; they’re great books!

You know, call me crazy, but I honestly forgot all about public libraries, haha.
I tried going to my university’s library, but nothing there helped me with my Chinese studies. D:
I’m sure it’ll be different with the public libraries around here; thanks for the reminder! : D!!

Dito

Seriously….I can’t remember the last time I was in a library!

I actually didn’t use the library much when I was younger, but now I use it all the time!! :) I just finished a library book yesterday. I need to go return it.

The college I’m going to next year has a huge beautiful east asian languages library. Hopefully I can use it to help me study Japanese!

I don’t enjoy a library as much as I used to as I noticed that they have gotten a little noisier. I’m more comfortable sitting down with a cup of tea (Chai if I’ve got some extra money) at the local Borders or Barnes and Noble.

Your library is noisier than Borders/Barnes and Noble?? Odd….

I didn’t think of it that way. It does sound a little odd.

I still visit my university library and local library pretty frequently, but mostly to study or browse. I don’t like borrowing books since I really like annotating them. I might preview a book at the library, but I haven’t read a book from the library cover to cover in years.

I LOVE THE LIBRARY! since I live in Florida there is a large community of Hispanics. therefore the library has a sizable amount of spanish books. it was very helpful when learning spanish.
And Laura my library is noisier than Barnes and Noble….I know it is very odd

my library has a whole entire section devoted to japanese which i am studying i use it constantly~~!

personally, i have a big library collected within so many years from many different countries, plus i love public libraries. i am a member of one of the most famous, and one of the oldest libraries in the world, bibliotheca Alexandria.

I stopped going to public libraries because I didn’t want to give the books back – now I have a house full of books I have bought with not much room for anything else ….. hmm must re-think all that.

I can’t remember when I’ve last visited a library…. Nearly everything is available on the internet and those few books that offer something truly superior to the online sources are often worth buying anyway….

@The_invincib….: Yep, if there’s one library that is still worth visiting these days then it’s definitely the one in Alexandria. Especially with all of the modernizations they’ve introduced recently.

@philip, you should come and visit my beautiful Alexandria and its library and landmarks

My university library is amazing. They have so many services free of charge — they can have a document in a warehouse in another state scanned and in my inbox in under 48 hours. Also, many of their books are scanned; I have an entire Italian textbook in PDF form. GREAT!

Nice Sean! I feel like if that were the case for me I’d be harvesting a bunch of random books I’d probably never read. Libraries are great for certain things but I’d rather just buy whatever I’m looking for.

Internet = Biggest library ever built :)

I love libraries and I think that they will always exist. I take my son to the library every single week without fail and some times more than that. He’s only just now approaching 3 but he has a thirst for books! Of course we have our own books, but getting 10 new ones each week is fun, and doesn’t sound very affordable for me to buy that many books a week but checking them out works great.

I regularly use my local library and enjoy taking out books by authors I’ve never heard of. Not the sort of thing I’d do necessarily in a bookshop.
My only regret: Now that the booking system is computerised, you can’t see how often a book has been already taken out – a quick indication of its popularity.

I love libraries! I used to always go when I was a kid, but now that I’ve graduated college I find that I’m still thirsting to learn…. something the local library can quench! I especially like taking out audiobooks.

I like the library but my local one has little of the books I want to read – hardly any language books, no Japanese books :(