The Library Tag
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- In which I do the Library Tag . . .
I was tagged by @HannahsBooks
The tag was created by @BookBuds
I tag: @BlatantlyBookish, @BookishTexan, @jenniferlovesbooks
Books & Authors Mentioned
Jacqueline Wilson: / 22602.jacqueline_wilson
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin: / tomorrow-and-tomorrow-...
Absolutely and Forever, Rose Tremain: / absolutely-and-forever
Music in the Dark, Sally Magnusson: / music-in-the-dark
The Fraud, Zadie Smith: / the-fraud
Questions
THE TWO SETS OF PROMPTS TO CHOOSE FROM:
*If you DO go to the library… answer these:
1. How often do you go to the library?
2. Do you belong to more than one library system?
3. What percent of books you read come from the library?
4. Do you listen to audiobooks or get e-books from the library or are you hooked on Audible or Amazon or something else?
5. Did you go to storytime at the library as a kid?
6. Have you ever borrowed a movie or video game from your library?
7. Have you ever gotten fined for returning books late? If so, how do you feel about that?
8. Do you attend special events, groups or book sales at the library?
9. Have you ever given or taken a book from a little free library, a book box or a book swap?
10. Bonus! Does your librarian know you by name?
11. Tag some friends!
*If you DON’T go to the library… answer these:
1. Why the heck not?
2. Where do you get your books from?
3. Have you ever had a library card or do you have one now?
4. When was the last time you stepped foot in the library?
5. Have you ever gone to an event at your library?
6. Do you have little free libraries or book boxes or book swaps where you live? Show us a picture if you do.
7. Tag some friends!
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As a librarian, it gives us a little boost when someone takes out a book which has been shelved for a long time. Lovely video, thanks.
My librarian knows me by name - we're married. 🙂
😂🥰this comment made me smile…
I so enjoyed this comment 😆
Hi! Thanks for doing our tag! We use the library often and actually film our videos outside the library. Love seeing all the library love. Agree that ebooks would feel weird on the computer. That’s annoying that your library doesn’t work with kindle. Mine had that problem for a bit but then a new system fixed that problem- yay!
Our library did change system fairly recently, so maybe I should check if that's changed for me, too!
How lovely to see you do this tag! I love the story of your first post-lockdown library visit. (Incidentally, Rose Tremain is on my library hold shelf right now.)
Lovely responses to this tag, Katie! 😊
Love that you were questioned about taking out 12 classics 😂
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Thank you so much for tagging me Katie! I really cannot wait to do this one! It seems like so much fun to film. I'm also super jealous of your unlimited renewals at the library. Ours has two renewals only, and no renewals if someone is waiting.
Unlimited renewals is lovely! It's only for physical books, not for audiobooks, sadly - they are harder to renew!
I love going to the library.
There’s something about coming home with a stack of books, and equally nice to take them back after reading, to get a whole new stack.
It’s like going shopping without buyers remorse.
Also, as much as I love seeing everyone’s book collections, I don’t like having lots of things to store (I’m not a minimalist by any means, but I enjoy not having a lot of stuff around), so I don’t own many books; my collection is limited to a small bookcase. I’ve only kept books that have a very significant meaning to me.
As for library memberships, I do have multiples mainly because I live near where multiple physical libraries are located (from different systems), so it’s convenient to have the multiple memberships in case one book happens to not be readily available at one (which is rare), I can go to the other (or if I just want to browse and borrow from the different physical libraries).
As for books I get at the library, it’s similar to the ones you mentioned - mainly classics/older books, so I typically don’t have a hard time finding what I’m looking for (versus getting current popular books).
Ok…
Thanks for the video…!
Enjoyed it very much.
A bunch of my best friends are librarians or library employees! They give me the inside scoop when there is a library book sale coming up soon!
Love libraries! 💖
This was a lovely video! I never use my local library as I tend to read most of the time classics in foreign languages and I don't think they have those. But I do used a lot the public library when I was a teenager (I lived in a different city then, so it was a different library ☺️) for school and "personal" projects, those being topics I liked to research by my own. I have very fond memories of those times 😊
Thank you Katie!
I’m doing this tag next month but I have started going back to the library
I usually get reference materials out. When I'm doing school projects. I do have overdue books. Big stressor. I usually buy books. I collect authors writings.
Thanks for the tag Katie
I have library cards from 5 different library systems! I'm work in a library and I live in a community that is part of the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) and as long as we live in one of the cities, we are able to obtain a library card in any of the cities in my regional municipality. Lots of options for library materials and I rarely drive anywhere without an audiobook on my phone.
I use Libby alot more than going to my library in person. I've started to read more from the library this year which is great, I am always recommending Libby now 😅
Libby is great!
Interlibrary loan is the best!
I haven't been to the library in a long time because I can't decide what is the perfect opportunity to go, and I want to make sure I prioritize the books I own.
I usually try and balance between books I'm getting out from the library and those I own, but it can be hard to balance.
In recent years I've mostly used the library for ebooks. Have recently checked out some physical books, but had to return them unfinished. Used to get movies quite a bit. It's a fantastic system. We can have materials transferred from any branch in the county; they've bought most of the books I've requested. They're also have one of the largest ancestry collections in the country for some reason. Best of all, they have YOUR book.
Fun! :)
My university had a really lax fine system and window to renew, but I definitely got fined for at least one book that I forgot to renew. Many libraries around here have done away with fines for most things, which really takes the pressure off
I love on the edge between two library systems: one in the suburb I live in, the other a few blocks from my workplace. I, too, do a lot of holds on books and movies, including inter library loans for some of the obscure things I want to read.
I checked out a bunch of nonfiction books from each of the systems in preparation for Jane Austen July, mostly because I’m not sure which I’ll want to read when the time comes and the library has a lot of out of print (or harder to get) titles in that section.
Frankly I’ve been very disappointed in their selection of classics. My guess is that they are too readily available elsewhere and aren’t particularly popular.
I do get a lot of my book club books at the library - since our selections aren’t always ones I’d pick out myself, it’s better to borrow it.
As a librarian, I can tell you we have to weed our collections frequently to make space for new purchases. Part of the weeding process is determining if the book we are going to remove from our catalogue is available elsewhere. If not, we keep it, but if so we discard it. 😥 However, as you've mentioned, using the interlibrary loan system is a fantastic way to get books unavailable at your library.
I think my library system have quite a bit overflow storage somewhere - I often reserve books that aren't on the shelves at any of the libraries but that they get out of storage for me!
I like my library a lot, but I wish it’s architecture was more libraryish. Thank you for the tag.
A lot of the local libraries in London are old Victorian/Edwardian buildings, which is very fun!
I've not been to one in several years, as they've become too friendly to multi-media patrons. To be frank, often I feel quite out-of-place in the library today, particularly compared to the pre-9/11 days when spending a day in the reading room was a legitimate option. A few years ago there was some business to do and on the way out saw my favorite poetry collection, Ariel, on display so naturally sat down with it to re-read again. However, decidedly it drew the attention of various employees. Is it really so incomprehensible that someone might want to use a library to read?
Hello everyone! Need your advice.
Friends, please, settle one problem with English and American literature. I am a Russian man and I am learning English. In order to know this language deeply I started reading original English and American literature. At first I took Dickens and read a couple of his novels. This was difficult but I could enjoy a little. Than one English woman, in reply to my lamentations about Dickens, advised me to put him away and to take something simpler. Okay. I followed this advice and started reading modern novels. And indeed the style and vocabulary of these novels let me enjoy reading. Then, after reading about 7 modern novels with great enjoyment and pleasure, I decided that I was already ready for another kind of literature. So called serious classic literature. And I took Cronin. And again this was very difficult reading. It seemed to me that his style and vocabulary were even more difficult than Dickens. Nevertheless, I overcame his «The Citadel». Then I was about to fight his «The Keys of the Kingdom», but I lost this battle. I put away this book not reading it to the end and took a modern novel and my enjoyment returned.
Why is it? Why is there such a wide gap between your novelists of the 19th and the mid-20th centuries and modern novelists of the 21st century? What happened to the language and vocabulary?
Thank you, friends.
First, good on you and good luck with your efforts. It's not wasted time.
There are all kinds of jokes and humor about this question of yours. Some writers like to show off their vocabulary; others to show how simple and direct they can make things. Hemingway is famous for his short sentences and simple dialog. There are even jokes (in The Sun Also Rises, for example), how some of his characters say much with very few words...I say, what rot, etc., etc.
UA-cam also contains many clips of urban encounters consisting of little but "bros," "like", "ya knows", and endless repetitive profanity and insults. People are puzzling and endlessly fascinating, no?
Many writers of the 19th century are wordy and florid, and because they are educated, they show it off. Others engage in sleights of hand or verbal confusion. Yet others want to be simple and tough. I guess I'm saying you just have to sample for yourself and see what is acceptable. For some writers (for me, Faulkner, Joyce, translations of Proust, for example, or Samuel Beckett), my brain just says "no". I try not to be too hard on myself. I return to Tolstoy, Raymond Chandler, or Willa Cather and just get on with things.
Dickens is tough, as are George Elliot and Hardy. Jane Austen is elegantly simple. I love Hemingway and Steinbeck for their form and function beauty, although they are so different. I think I prefer writers of the early-mid 20th century because my parents were quiet, reserved people who must have absorbed the literary culture and speech patterns around them.
I read so little modern (21st century) fiction I can't even comment about it. I have NEVER read Colleen Hoover, Zadie Smith, Mr. Ishiguro, or Cormac M. You can't read everything, and the clock keeps ticking.
@@kevinrussell-jp6om Thank you for your non-indifference and profound answer. I really appreciate it. It helped me to sort things out.
@@yuriylugovtsev9336 You're welcome. Yours was a simple question to a complicated topic but deserved a reply because I, too, have wondered the same. The eternal "why" questions. Usually, we can't answer them to our complete satisfaction, but we're fools if we don't at least ask.
I often ask myself why am I not smarter, richer, or better looking, but we can only stand so much honesty.
I go to two different Libraries - One is a County Library which is in my County which I have to pay $50.00 a year to use it because I don’t live in the same town or the Big City that the Main County Library is in or the Branches that are not that far from me . I love going to the County Library.
The other Library I go to is in my town - 10 minutes away from me. I love going there but they are still checking out books the old fashion way. They use the Evergreen Library System and it takes forever to get a book in if you put it on Hold. I won’t put any books on hold through my town Library. The last time I did that - At Three weeks of waiting on my Book to come in I still did not get it at 3 weeks. That is way too long for me to wait for a book to come in.
Both Libraries I can check out up to 100 Books at one time. I can renew them twice as long as somebody does not want them.
I love reading Children’s Books - Adventure Books - Children’s Mystery Books. I like Classics as well.
Right Now I am reading my own Books that I own.
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