Kearny Public Library

It’s great to have a place where your toddler can act like a toddler, loud and curious. The children section is huge, with big selection of toys and books. They also have quite a few PCs with educational games. Parking is an issue, especially on Saturday.

Kearny public library is a great place to study, do research, use a computer ehich they provide and also print document and or copy them. You can even rent movies or just read a book or newspaper. Very nice and helpful staff, who ate able to help you with questions you have. If you have children, the library has a kids section towards to back.

I’m currently in Grad school so I come to this library often when I need to get studying done. This is mainly because of convenience because it’s much closer than my school library and I’m one of those people who need to leave my apartment to get work done efficiently. The library itself is very nice and has an amazing staff that are very helpful. However it has fewer amenities compared with other libraries. The few things they do offer is free wifi, computer access, as well as the obvious books/​references. There are roughly 12 – 20 tables to sit and read.
They also have a «security guard» that is usually present during all hours if you need someone to watch your stuff if you step out. Most places to sit have electrical outlets if you need to plug in a cellphone/​laptop/​tablet/​etc. Overall this is a nice library and the only reason I gave it 3 stars is because it is SUPER NOISY, especially after kids get out of school!!! I can’t stress this part enough!!! Don’t be surprised when people are answering cellphone calls, laughing, or carrying on full conversations as if they were at a sporting event. It’s not your stereotypical…“Shhhhh be quiet and if you must speak wisper” –type of library. There are also private tutors that use this space to help adults and children with language lessons and after school tutoring, so there will be constant noise anytime after 12pm on schooldays. So make sure you bring headphones with music or earplugs if you are like me and need to drown out background noise.
I also forgot to mention they a very small museum upstairs and a children’s library that is located in the back and I’ve never really spent any time in either location to be honest. From what I’ve seen, the library has a pretty decent selection of books and constantly change their available displays for popular new reads.

Love KPL because they are very quick and efficient with service and they will go out of their way to get you what you want. The book series I like reading isn’t offered in their library, but I fill out an interlibrary loan, they call me when it’s in.
They are also super-​sweet and always automatically renew a book for me if they see that it’s due, but I didn’t bring it in. So thoughtful!