Mount Pleasant Public Library

I'm new to the area and love libraries, but find this one disappointing. It's very cold and clinical--like an office building from the '70s. There are no comfy chairs or quiet spots to read. There's one great big room where you can hear the full conversations of anyone talking. The few chairs with cushions are not inviting. It's filled with hard chairs, desks, and cubbies, as if the designer was catering to an outdated idea of how students, or anyone, should study and work.

One of the best children’s books selections. My kids love this library.

Great place to read and be quiet.

Great library. Spacious with plenty of places to sit, charge your device and work in silence. Also sections for collaborative groups.

I am beside myself at the un kid-friendliness of the children’s library. After playing and reading quietly for about a half hour, our three 2 year olds went into a stack in the children’s section and got excited and started giggling loudly. We of course explained that we need to be quiet in the library but apparently it still warranted a lecture to us that they “can’t yelling here”. My daughter got away from me shortly after into the stacks again and while I was on my way after her I was again receiving advisement that I “really should watch her better”. I had heard about the unfriendliness of the librarians there but never fully experienced first hand. I was livid (perhaps still am) and now I am in search of a children’s library where children can act like children. I’ve heard that Chappaqua has a good one where after apologizing bc a child is loud they were assured that is why it is in fact a children’s library. I’m just very disappointed in pville..