This library's closer to my house than my FAVORITE (Sahara West), but I still prefer to make the drive to Sahara West. Windmill Library is indeed a library with a lot of books and from the outside, you'd think the LIBRARY would be massive inside, but it's actually only in the left side of the building. Don't park on the right side of the parking lot because you'll end up making quite the trek just to get to the library section. The library is only one story (who knows what goes on upstairs) which contains children as well as adult literature. Perks of the library would be that they're close to my house, and they have a better selection of DVDs & random paperbacks for children, especially pertaining to superheroes. \n\nThe following lists the reasons why I still drive 20 minutes to Sahara West (SW from now on):\n1. The librarians, security guards (not because my children are terrible, but because one of them thinks my son is extraordinarily cool), and women at the circ desk all know my children. I never see the librarians at Windmill Library talk to anyone or do anything fun.\n2. The set up is no bueno for wandering children, because as soon as they walk 2 feet past the children's CD, they'll find a bunch of old people sitting there reading adult books. SW is completely separated by the Young Adult section & there are no serious reading adults for at least 20 yards. \n3. Storytime gets full? What? I have never been denied out of storytime at SW (we go every week), but the room here is so small, it reaches capacity fast. Weird. They should reconfigure the useless space upstairs & do storytime there! Problem solved.\n4. Adult paperbacks are kind of a mess. They're separated by topic, but not alphabetized (SW's is!). Once, I was desperately looking for a book & was open to a paperback version so I called the library when they opened to see if a librarian could check for me. She told me that she doesn't have time to do that and I have to come see myself because they're all over the place. I asked, \"none of your stuff is alphabetized?\" & she said, \"yes, it's like a treasure hunt\". Hmm.... Apparently, even the librarians there think it sucks.... so much so that she doesn't want to get out of her chair & do her job. \n\nIf you're a parent who's used to going to Windmill, check out Sahara West. I'll just be coming here if I'm feeling lazy or really need to return something.
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