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Only reason I know of that people go to the library is to study. And libraries are creepy because it's so quiet and with stacks of books surrounding you it can be hard to see what is even 5ft away.

I don't think our library could be considered spooky under any conditions. It's fairly bright in there and always busy. I found that link you put in very interesting, though. Our city doesn't really have any old structures that are remotely in the ball park for spooky or haunted. A shame it is.

We go to the library all of the time. We feel it's important for our children to develop a love for reading. You can't find everything on the interweb.

Ah yes, studying.. I suppose people do that at the library.

a_romig: I can relate. I guess I never grew up going to the library that often but I certainly did have a number of books to read.

Name something I can't find on the web. ;)

Maybe libraries are spooky if it's an old one and the books are old. Like the books need to be as old as the ghosts, no? It wouldn't apply if say, it were the result of a recent municipal project. ;) Seems at least somewhat consistent with the list of libraries in the article.

Wasn't Ghostbusters like that, with a spooky library in there somewhere? I might be smoking crack.

Certain parts of the library at the University of Arizona are spooky. In the basement there are rooms that have no windows and no lights in the ceiling. The shelves slide on rails, so only one shelf can be opened at a time (for better storage), and the lights only come on when you walk down the aisle.

I can just imagine someone pushing the slide button and the person in the open aisle being smashed to death, never to be seen again until some grad student goes looking for a book on basket weaving techniques of the natives of Peru.

alisa wins for the paint-a-creepy-library-picture-in-my-head award...

Apparently, some people have never been lost in a library. I work on a campus that has a huge, multi-story library. It's not as big as some (can you imagine how big the U of Michigan library is, but I digress), but it's big. I lost my sense of direction in the poorly lit basement (very little natural light, only a few weak overhead lights) while searching for an Austen novel. Every path I tried to get out seemed to dead end. If it had been night time (i.e. even darker), I would have been seriously creeped out. There were also plenty of those creepy periodical sliders Alisa speaks of.

And then there's those stories of students living in the library...

Certain parts of the library at the University of Arizona are spooky. In the basement there are rooms that have no windows and no lights in the ceiling. The shelves slide on rails, so only one shelf can be opened at a time (for better storage), and the lights only come on when you walk down the aisle.

I can just imagine someone pushing the slide button and the person in the open aisle being smashed to death, never to be seen again until some grad student goes looking for a book on basket weaving techniques of the natives of Peru.

I was just thinking about the library at UNLV where I used to go, and the basement is just like that (or was, back then). I never quite got spooked about being there, though, I just thought it was cool. Now that I've read what alisa said about the slide button though...

As for libraries in general, I don't frequent them. I'm not sure I would even if I lived in the States and had access to a better one, but the one on the military post here is small, and they generally don't have what I want or need when I want or need it.

I've always been an instant gratification girl, and when I want to read for pleasure, I want to read a certain thing and if the library doesn't have it (because they just don't or it's checked out by someone else), well, that's why I buy the books I want to read, and keep them in my own library at home. I can order from Amazon or get what I want at ereader.com and read it on my Palm.

My husband takes my kids to the library and they check out books all the time. We all read like crazy; I had to make a rule that there are no books at the dinner table, otherwise, we'd never have a real conversation around here.

I have never found a library that I didn't enjoy being in, from the U.S, to Canada, England, Scotland, Italy, etc., libraries are places of enjoyment to me.

I don't find them spooky, even when looking at original ancestral or other documents from centuries past.

Cool site. I love libraries, but never felt a spirit at the Library of Congress, and I've been there a couple of times this summer.

People used to say the library at the university I attended was haunted, but I think it was over active imaginations instigated by the fact that a couple of students had jumped off the building. I spent countless hours there, it was a huge place and never felt a spirit. Others insist it was there. I have my doubts because a student lived in that library for a decent period of time - a student who did not have the money for tuition and housing and he never wrote about it on the blog he kept at that time or anywhere else for that matter.

Haha wow, I had no idea people did that. That'd be a fun experiment: living in a library as long as you can.

One of my favorite memories is of the library in the small town where I grew up. It was actually an old home, with a yard and fireplace on Main Street. It was not spooky but very cozy. The adults who worked there would save me books on my reading level and about my interests (ah, small town life!) It would be a weekly adventure to bike into town and go to the library. It still had the old 'card catalog'.

the university of arizona library has VERY creepy parts..they just moved a bunch of the books around and the first floor is pretty much full of maps, new and old. there are no windows and its dark. one day that i was in there looking for a map of the soviet union in the 1800s i was COMPLETELY alone and i could of sworn someone walked behind me and when i turned no one was there, but there was no where for anyone to be hiding just playing a mean trick. it might of been my imagination but needless to say i got a copy of the map, got out and havent been back in like 4 months..!!