Libraries

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Inspired by Booksplease

Whether you usually read off of your own book pile or from the library shelves NOW, chances are you started off with trips to the library. (There’s no way my parents could otherwise have kept up with my book habit when I was 10.) So … What is your earliest memory of a library? Who took you? Do you have you any funny/odd memories of the library?


Don’t forget to leave a link to your actual response (so people don’t have to go searching for it) in the comments—or if you prefer, leave your answers in the comments themselves!

134 responses

  1. I was just about to go to bed…

    I went ahead and answered the question, but I warn you…I have a very unpleasant memory!

    http://trishsdiary.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/libraries-booking-through-thursday/

  2. […] certainly started off with the library. The first library I remember was my school library. The librarian was a nice, pretty lady who used […]

  3. Here’s mine It brought memories back of rural poverty, dying mining communities and mobile libraries-eh them were the days.

  4. Here’s my boring answer:

    Libraries

  5. Wow, it’s taken me quite some time to answer my own question. Here it is. Now I’m going to read everyone else’s answers.

  6. I sort of wrote more about what libraries symbolize to me:

    http://bookclubclassics.com/Blog/2008/08/21/btt-library-love/

    Also, I recommended a great book on this subject!! 🙂

  7. Morning! I love my library experience.
    http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

  8. Since I moved out of Readerville, I’m now up at The Book Lady’s Blog .

  9. Good morining everyone. My post is up at http:charliandme.blogspot.com/

  10. […] week's Booking Through Thursday asks: What is your earliest memory of a library? Who took you? Do you have you any funny/odd […]

  11. I played today!

    http://shaycv.blogspot.com/2008/08/booking-through-thursday-libraries.html

    The earliest age I can remember going to the library is about age 5. My mother and grandmother took my brother (age 2) and I to the local library. I remember being in awe of all the books there! I wanted to stay there forever and read them all. Our town library was rather small and it did not take me long to read through the books there. Eventually mom had to take me to the “big city” library so that I would have something to read LOL.

  12. After a good few weeks of not participating in BTT, here finally are some answers:
    http://shereadsbooks.org/2008/btt-libraries/

  13. Not that those weeks were good because I wasn’t doing BTT, I mean. Just that there were a number of weeks. I just realized how funnily that read…

  14. […] Booking Through Thursday is about libraries: Whether you usually read off of your own book pile or from the library shelves […]

  15. […] in Uncategorized at 9:07 am by islandeditions This week’s question at Booking Through Thursday […]

  16. Have a great day! Click on my name for my answer.

  17. This is my first time here and I am so happy to find a book meme WooHoo!!!!! Here is my link for my entry:
    http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/OhioSarah/578158/

  18. What a great discussion! Looking forward to reading a few.
    http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Christin/578173/

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  20. What a great discussion! I Look forward to reading a few! 🙂
    http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Christin/578173/

  21. […] week’s Booking Through Thursday question asks: Whether you usually read off of your own book pile or from the library shelves NOW, […]

  22. […] thursday: the library story that almost never gets old So I wasn’t going to do Booking Through Thursday because I feel like I’ve answered this week’s question ad nauseum. But now it seems […]

  23. Looks like WordPress has decided that I’m spam again, but I’ll try it one more time:
    http://jlshall.blogspot.com/2008/08/booking-through-thursday-libraries.html

  24. Here’s mine:

    Libraries

  25. Thursdays are so much fun for me now!! I love to “remember when”

  26. I’m a first time participant. Here’s my post:
    http://shootingstarr7.livejournal.com/13226.html

  27. I’m here by way of 5 Minutes for Books. This was fun! I’ve posted mine. http://sweet-teawithlemon.blogspot.com/2008/08/libraries.html

  28. […] days in the library At Booking through Thursday, this week’s current meme challenges us to blog about about our earliest memory of a […]

  29. Why don’t my trackbacks ever work? Mine’s up here.

  30. Thanks, as usual, for a great question. My post is up.

  31. Great question 🙂 I love the library – here’s my post:

    Booking Through Thursday – Library Memories

  32. Some thursdays, I forget until too late in the day: Have a good weekend!

  33. let me try this for a third time… LOL
    i got so excited remembering my library experiences I have forgotton how to use a computer!!

    http://ffbookblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/thursdaylets-book-thru-it.html

  34. Whoa. This one is super popular, isn’t it?

    Well, here’s mine, just off the top of my head.

  35. This was a good question, mine is up

  36. Late this week, but still playing on a Friday morning 🙂 Here is mine. Cheers!

  37. Finally getting my answer up here.

  38. I love this week’s question! My response is up, plus I have a little comic strip that I made to go with it! Check it out here:
    http://opheliasworld.blogspot.com/2008/08/booking-through-thursday-libraries.html

    See you there! 🙂

  39. Kindergarten through college, my life in the library:
    http://americanbibliophile.com/?p=58

  40. Mine is up late. Happy BTT everyone. 🙂

  41. Here is my very, very late post today! Hope everyone had a good Thursday.

  42. Here is my late, late post … hope everyone had a good Thursday!

  43. My answer is here.

  44. My response is up! Happy BTT everyone!

  45. Jessica Coleman

    My, how this question brought it all back…

  46. I could have written on the topic of childhood libraries for a week, so I wrote about just my first:

    http://tinakubala.com/2008/08/21/library-memories.aspx

  47. This was a fun topic. Here’s mine. I’m probably last….

    http://readywhenyouarecb.blogspot.com/2008/08/btt-library.html

  48. I’m new and a bit late but my post is here:

    Booking Through Thursday: Libraries

  49. […] just discovered the Booking Through Thursday blog and last Thursday, the subject was on libraries.  Readers were asked, What is your earliest memory of a library? Who took you? Do you have you any […]

  50. Library? What library? There was none in my community – http://www.womze.com/?p=48

  51. […] just discovered the Booking Through Thursday blog and last Thursday, the subject was on libraries.  Readers were asked, What is your earliest memory of a library? Who took you? Do you have you any […]