How old were you when you got your first library card?

I got my first ever library card when i was in high school, i was 12 years old i think. I did not have a chance of acquiring a library card during my elementary years because our library is somewhat closed shelf and we do not have any librarian instead a teacher manages our library.

I think I was 7 too, but I can't remember for sure. I do remember that I was in elementary school, and I also remember the library having a fun story-time program that I would go to every week. I didn't like libraries much when I was a kid, even though I was still an avid reader. I don't remember getting used to them until much later in life, like in high school. I have no library aversions now!

I'm not sure when I got my first library card but I can't remeber ever a time when I haven't been to a library. I remenber going as a very young child and borrowing baby books. My mum had a library card so I'm sure I would have had my own. So I'm guessing before the age of 5. My children all had library cards from about 6 months old as there are many picture books and hard back books that you can borrow from a libarary. All my children have been brought up with books, being read to and visiting the library. We also have loads of books in our house. I try to read 52 books every year.

When I was a child we were not allowed to get a card until we could be responsible for the books. So I would guess 4th or 5th grade, before that we had to use our parents and at that time we signed in for each book we got.

I was around 4 when I got my first library card( I say 'around' as this was over 55 years ago and I can't be exact!!) However I took all my children to get library tickets when they were just babies and they grew up going to the library to get first picture books and then working up to normal books. I am a big believer in the benefits that there are from reading and the joys and knowledge that books hold.

I think I was about 12 years old and was able to get it on my own. I remember them upgrading the card to a plastic type one and I still have it. lol My kids and I frequented the library a great deal and I got theirs when they were in first grade and they still have their cards as well.

I don't remember, about that age I guess... I've slept since then...

I am not sure how old I was when I got my own library card, but it was sometime in my early grade school years. In the summertime I would go to the library with my friends and we would check out books. Sometimes we would just hang out reading them at the library.

I had a library card when I was in pre-school--although back then they called it "play school". The library was an important part of our lives and it still is. I think one of the best things you can give a child is a library card and frequent trips to the library!

hi 3SnuggleBunnies I lived on the farm and went in to Newell a small town so we did not have a library til I was in my twenties. but when my son was little I got a library card for him when he was five and we often went to the library to the various children's programs. Now he is as avid a reader as I am.My parents bought books for me when I was little and I learned to read and do sums before I went to the first grade. My son has had a library card all his life and I have had one also. we are both real readers and he introduced me to Stephan Kings books which I really love.

To be honest, I can't really remember how old I was when I got my first library card. It was maybe some time around grade 6 or 7 maybe.

I have always had a library card since I can remember, and used to visit the library with my Mother on a weekly basis. I was allowed to get six books out at a time and my parents would read one of these each night to me until I was old enough to read them myself. I love reading, and will read something every single day. I am 21 now, and I know that I will be getting a library card for my children as soon as they're old enough to understand the books that I would be reading to them at their bed times.

I'm sure I had mine as soon as I could print my name, probably by the time I was five. By the time I was 11 and lived four blocks from the library, I was there almost every day. The librarian encouraged me and looked the other way when she knew I was checking out the limit each day before brining all the rest back. She saw me help friends who happened to be there find things, and saw me recommending books to those same friends. She knew I loved that place and knew my way around it almost as well as she did. The week after I graduated from high school, I was on a walk with my boyfriend and his friend, who lived not far from the library, and we stopped by. On a lark I asked the librarian if she had any jobs open, and she did. After an oral civil service test I was hired -- not as a page, but as a desk clerk. I was very happy there until the offered me the job of assistant branch librarian at the age of 19. I really wanted it, but it would have been full time and Mom and Dad wanted me to finish school. So they sent me to UCLA, which did have a library school (a graduate school), and that meant giving up my job.