Do you have a good public library where you live?

Our local library has a great kids section. The adult section is a little lacking, but we're part of an inter-library program that you can find & reserve books online and pick them right up at the front desk.

We're very fortunate to have a really well stocked library 5 mnutes from our house. I've never gone there and walked out with less than 4 or 5 books and they have a really great kids section. I go there quite a bit when the kids are in school and just take along my laptop. I'll go through amazon and find books that I might find interesting and then see if the library has them

We have an excellent public library with a branch also in the recreation centre. They have an excellent selection of adult books, children's books, youth books, DVD's, CD's, large print books and "New" books. We can look for what we want on the computer. If they don't have a book you are looking for they will get it for you. My daughter wanted a book so they borrowed one from a library in a different city.

At March Break and summer they have excellent reading programs and other things for the kids. Magicians and other entertainers come and perform. They have crafts, contests and prizes. It is a pretty good library for a small town of 26,000.

it's gotten somewhat better over the years,but i'd say it's still lacking.they have a high problem with people not returning books,or them being damaged.
they will order books special though sometimes if you ask them.

I*wish* the library in my town was a good one! I moved here from the city, where the library was FABULOUS! Now, I'm craving something that resembles a good library. Where I live (in a really small town), the library is an old school house looking thing. It's cute and has that quaint village-like feeling . . . but . . . seriously, it needs to be better!!

Our library system is great. If they don't have something at our local branch we can have it ordered in from another one. They have DVD's, educational video games, movies from almost every genre and audio books. Not a lot of people think to check the library for such things, it saves a lot of money over renting movies at places like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video too.

It can be a bit hit and miss but they will order something if you request it. What drives me nuts is that they often have part of a series of books and don't think for a minute you might want to read the others.

I live in a medium size city (for Portugal, anyway) in the interior - Covilhã - and here we have one good public library and the university library which is almost public also, the general public just can't borough books to home.

I used to go to the public library all the time when I was a kid. Eveytime I went I used to get a babysitter's club book. lol:) I haven't been a long long time though.

well,here from where I come from,the reading culture is very low and poor .the public library though few have out-dated books.so I would say we do not have a good library system here in my country.nigeria.cheers.