Serangoon Public Library

The plus is I can always find a chair on weekend lunch time.
I can find books I like though they are showing their age or wear and tear. The books can be better shelved as I can find the same authored books in several different shelves in the area, slotted between various writers. So it can be challenging to slowly browse through the entire section.
The tables with chairs are meant for newspaper reading and it is stated on the back of the chairs. I guess that makes sense as the newspapers do take up space. I guess that also means it is not a place for studying which can be good or bad, depending on which camp you are in.
The minus is the horde of kids who will start screaming now and then. Or you will hear the phones ringing or people talking very loudly every so often. I wish the librarians will do more to remind the patrons to keep the noise level down.
Being tucked away on the sky garden area means it is not a place you can quickly pop by just to return your library books.
I only go there because it is the nearest library for me, and I can still find books I like.

Serangoon Public Library located at Nex’s SkyGarden level is surprisingly quite crammed and offers very little space to sit and read. Seats get occupied really quickly, especially during the weekend afternoons. A major gripe I have about this library is its intolerable noise level.
Despite all these underwhelming factors, I still appreciate Serangoon Public Library for its wide range of titles. You can find anything here from celeb biographies and film books to Rolling Stone magazines. What I love most about this library is its multiple racks of comics ranging from Marvel and DC to Dark Horse (Hellboy and Buffy) and even Image Comics (The Walking Dead). You can literally spend an hour or more just browsing through the various comic book titles. The magazine section is also quite impressive, with both foreign and local labels like Esquire, GQ, Total Film, Empire, Reader’s Digest and National Geographic. Whether you’re a Stephen King fan or newbie cat owner, there’s really a book for everyone in this library.

This library isn’t very big, and surprisingly doesn’t have any place for students to sit and study. It’s located on the roof top of nex shopping mall, in case you can’t find it.
There’s a decent collection of comic books, and nice chairs to sit and read. The Café Galilee which you commonly see next to a library doesn’t have a branch here either, so if you want a cuppa you’ll have to leave the library.
This library is unfortunately full of kids every time I visit, so there’s quite a bit of noise. But as long as you avoid the PC section and go further back it’s not so bad.

The public library at Serangoon is conveniently located on the rooftop of Nex shopping centre, above the Serangoon MRT and beside the bus interchange. It is relatively big and has quite a complete collection of fiction and non-​fiction books, with plenty of check-​out machines so that there was hardly any queue at all.
For a leisurely browse or a break from shopping, the library is a perfect place to while your time away. If you’re looking for a particular book, however, it might be better to search the database online first to check if the book is in that particular library. There are also machines there to check for book status but it is not always possible to travel to another library if the book is not in the Serangoon one. My only other complaint with the library is the inflexibility in methods of payment for fines. My friend did not possess an Ez-​link card or a debit card, and so, could not pay her fine to borrow more books. Upon approaching the librarians at the counter, they merely told us that there was no way we could pay in cash which seemed rather inflexible in my opinion since cash is often the easiest available method of payment.