Do you remember when you got your first library card?

[Snickerdoodle9]

I first got mine when I was 7 or 8. We had a rule in my family that you can't have one before that. Mostly so that we did not ruin books and have big money dues or get major fines. Of course, that did not mean we didn't read. We still checked out books, but they were my moms. I love having mine though.

[caity_cat_23]

Yes! It was my sixth birthday and it is still one of the most exciting birthdays to date. I made my mom get up super early so we could be at the library as soon as the doors opened. I must have written my name fifty times that morning in preparation! I also remember not getting to go to the library as much as I wanted because we could never afford the late fees

[Christinar81]

7 years old. I remember it well because it felt like Christmas to me. I still get that same thrill when I walk into a library today.

[aamadrid]

When I first received my library card I was so excited because I felt like reading was such an accomplishment! I followed my older brother around a lot and I was jealous of him because he knew how to read I couldn't. When I started school at age five, my kinder grade teacher took me and my classmates to the school library where we were required to have a library card. I went home that day feeling like I received the best thing in the world!

[Jesska6029]

My elementary school was about a block away from the local library. The teachers brought us there on a field trip to get each of us our first library cards. I think I was in 4th Grade.

[SparklingOne]

I was 11 and it was a pretty big deal to me that I could go get my own without my parents picking them and checking them out.

[lauren0907]

I had a library card when I was about 9 but I never used it. I didnt start checking books out til I was 15 and got a job at a library, my secret pleasure was putting books in order alphabetically because I was able to look at the covers, and read the back page to find out what I wanted to read. Been reading ever since. I haven't been in a library in a while. I carry my iPad around with 1000 books on it now. Sadly I keep finding new ones - hubs doesnt like to download anymore!

[deloris_what94]

I don't specifically remember when I got my first library cars, but I remember I was super excited about it. I loved going to the library and could easily spend hours going through the books. It's a good thing libraries have limits about how many books you can check out at one time or I probably would have tried to take them all home!

[Blood_and_Jokes]

I can't, actually! I mean, it was a hugely pivotal moment, and I used to love going to the library, but I genuinely can't remember how old I was. I do know that my Gran used to take me in her car, and that I'd often finished the first book before we got home.

[Mitj4]

I think I was 10 or 11 years old..

[Clove311]

It was the week before I had a tonsillectomy, so around 10 years old. Before that, I used my grandmothers and my mothers cards. Before that, my mother felt like I was too young to need my own before then.

[quadbrookie]

Kindergarten! I felt like one of the big kids!

-- 05 Dec 2015, 14:43 --

Kindergarten! I felt like one of the big kids!

[Jolyon Trevelyan]

I was 7 or 8. So i got it in either 1990 or 1991.

[BrownGirlBookSlayer]

I was about 8 and it was so that I could use the Bookmobile.

[Mike_Lang]

I was 7-years old, I went to a small school that didn't have a library so we would hold hands and walk a few blocks to the "real" library. I remember I couldn't check anything out until I took a permission slip home for my mom to sign saying that she would pay any overdue fees. Later, when I was about 12 we lived out in the middle of nowhere and I checked out books using the bookmobile that came around every three or four weeks.