Did you do homework at the library?

[RandomAnthony]

Did you do your homework at the library?

I did, as a kid, or at least pretended to do my homework at the libary. "Going to the library" was a way to get out of the house and I loved the walk through an old neighborhood and sitting in the safe, well-lit library. But I notice that few kids are in the library now sitting at tables with their books open. They're on the computers, so maybe they're doing their homework there. What do you think?

Oh, in college I did a lot of my homework in the library.

[Rebecca]

I was like you, RA, in school and in college. And to a large extent, I think those kids at the library are doing homework, at least part of the time.

[Phil]

Nope, no homework in the library.

In junior high & high school I did my homework on the bus on the way home. In college, the library was too quiet to get anything done. I studied in my dorm, with the tv on and people in the room chatting.

[Sarah]

Some work in the library, mainly because there were libraries on both ends of the subway line I rode to get home. So I'd wait in the one until some of the school crowd had ebbed, and then wait in the other if I wanted/needed a ride home (otherwise it was a mile walk from that end). I walked it most days, but sometimes I'd hang in the library. Also, I loved doing research at the big libraries. It made me feel very grown up. ETA: Same with college and going to the Library of Congress for research.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

I hung out at the library a lot in junior high and high school, but I can't say I did much homework there.

That changed in college, and in grad school. I loved the study rooms they had for the grad students in the hidden corridors of the graduate library. I remember specifically doing my cataloging homework there.

I'm still annoyed at my cataloging professor, though, for insisting there could only be one right answer (hers) for what number a book is classified under.

Technical services people are not good with people skills, by the way.

[Sarah]

In librarian school are there competitions for who can put away the most books in the proper place the fastest?
Maybe tag team derbies?

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

There ARE book cart drill team competitions, Sarah. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2QZqu...

[Auntie]

No. I did my reports there. Otherwise, I did hang out at my local library an awful lot.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

In junior high, I waited at the school library for a couple hours for my father to pick me up from school. Sometimes I did homework, sometimes I goofed off. In high school I would sometimes go to the nearby university library which was a 5 minute walk from our house. In college I did all my work at the library. It was impossible to do any work in the dorms.

[Brittomart]

I still do homework in the library....