Library services Reviews

I am here to defend the local library. Is there any need for the local library? Yes, there definitely is. At every stage of my life so far, I have needed the library. I have loved books since childhood, and although many of you will laugh at this, a trip to the library as a small child was a treat. I loved going. I loved the ...  Read the complete review

I cant speak highly enough of my local library (Saltash in Cornwall). There is a definate need for libraries and I think a lot of people would be devestated if they were to loose it. Changes My library has changed a great deal in recent years including putting in a computerised system which has been met with mixed ...  Read the complete review

Libraries can seem a little old fashioned to some people (especially with the advent of e-books) but the services they provide can be useful for some. Personally I have a thing about borrowing books - I don't like doing it, I prefer to own whatever I'm reading at home, and some would think that makes the library a bit pointless to me but ...  Read the complete review

The library is my current favourite thing, so I felt I just had to write a review and have a little rave about it. After writing my initial review I have come to realise that library services may vary widely between different local councils so would like to point out that my review is based on Sheffield libraries. I've always ...  Read the complete review

One of my favourite things in all the world to do, is curl up in a quiet room and read a good book. It helps me escape, helps me forget my troubles for a while. It encourages my imagination and allows me to become absorbed in a gripping story. Now in a money making obsessed society, what other hobby would cost me zero. Thats ...  Read the complete review

Reading is, for me, the ultimate relaxation; a way to experience extraordinary events and places without leaving the room, and to get to know people I wouldn't meet in the real world. Interesting, mind-expanding and thought-provoking, reading is the one skill I would never want to lose. Vistas and whole new worlds open before me when I ...  Read the complete review

After just having returned from one of our regular trips to the library I felt compelled to give my thoughts on the services we receive there and our experiences. It is only in the last year or so that I have been going to the library regularly and this is because of my two young daughters. The eldest is nearly 3 and the ...  Read the complete review

I've been going to our library since my time at primary school. I can't remember how often our Mum would take us but at the end of the day she'd walk us along, on a 3 minute journey, where my favourite books to take out were Asterix & Oblix, Hairy Maclary From Donaldson's Dairy and anything by Roald Dahl. No one else in my family ...  Read the complete review

My parents house was so full of books that my mother complained that it resembled a library. They both enjoyed books , but as far as I know were not even members of the local library. I just haven't got the space in our rather crowded abode, I've now got just two smallish bookcases, and thats it. I like to think I've got better things to ...  Read the complete review

Libraries I find are great places to spend time in. Just being surrounded by all those books-amazing. There are so many activities going on in libraries and they can be fun places to be in. Thinking of my local library there are so many things going on such as Baby Bounce and Rhyme Time for the little ones which looks fun and a ...  Read the complete review

Libraries - they are for me one of the best things available free of charge!!! When I were lad, my nan used to take me to the library every other wednesday after school. We would get as all the books we wanted then she would take us over to the little shop on the corner and we could buy a chocolate bar to eat after tea that ...  Read the complete review

I've always been an avid reader and have been a member of a local library for most of my life. Growing up in a rural village, I looked forward to the mobile library service visiting once a fortnight and I used to walk away with a carrier bag stuffed full of books. Now, as a mother of two, visiting the library is still very much part of ...  Read the complete review

Public libraries are a lot like Woolworths, in that a lot of people profess to love them, but the sales/visitor figures would seem to suggest that these same individuals maybe aren't patronising their local library. So, to borrow the Woolies allusion one last time, use them or lose them! As a professional librarian I am aware ...  Read the complete review

As a child I would visit the library perhaps once every few weeks and borrow various books, I always remember having to be quiet and feeling generally uncomfortable whilst there. How times have changed! The childrens section of my main library and two of the smaller ones I use are outstanding. I think it is vital for kids ...  Read the complete review

Public Libraries... Are they a thing of the past or something that we should all be more grateful more? Libraries have been around since there were books or pieces of writing, everybody needs a place to store books and so they create a library to store books and knowledge. Almost every town in the United Kingdom now has a public library ...  Read the complete review

Those of you who have read a few of my reviews will probably know I work in a library. Libraries are important to me ~ not just because they pay my wages but because I love books and also like to share this love with others. I don't claim to know everything about Library Services but I think, after over ten years in the business, I have ...  Read the complete review

There will always be a need for public libraries so long as schools assign term papers. The reason I say this is that I remember the number of books I had to go through with some of the papers I had to write. No student (or parent) would be willing to spend that kind of money for books they?ll be using once or twice. Also, ...  Read the complete review

I have never been one for buying new books. I am a fairly quick reader and finish a longish novel in a few days (well, I used to before I discovered this site!) so I figure buying book after book, especially hard back ones, was a waste of money. I do confess to having bought a few from charity shops, but at 10p a copy, you can't go ...  Read the complete review

As a child our family made regular trips to the local library. I quickly grew to love books and I would borrow both fictional and non-fiction books. I loved reading The Famous Five, the Hardy boys etc. (I even remember borrowing an encyclopedia for weeks so that I could learn the sign alphabet.) As I grew older the services at ...  Read the complete review

***Updated*** 03/03/02 - see the end of the op Ah, the library. Perhaps the most underrated public service of all. People often seem to take the service for granted, but think about it - where else can one research, learn, relax, discuss, laugh, cry and stay out of the rain as it buckets down for hours on end? And all without ...  Read the complete review