Baltimore County Public Library – Rosedale Branch

Nice small library. I’ve been going here for years during my high school days. It is much improved, nice layout, good people, adequate computers for use, and easy checkout.
I would like however, for the staff to control excessive noise more. It can get really loud in there.
With that said, overall this is a nice little library with alot of resources on disposal.

Excellent! The story vilke is wonderful
For little ones and a good place to interact. I wish there was more helpfulness from staff in regular library

Very noisy and crowded. Not the greatest for quiet reading. Also the fact that there is a uniformed security guard walking around bothered me somewhat.

Let me begin with this overall statement. As far as public library branches go, this is a good solid small branch. I have never not gotten something I needed there. The staff is capable, friendly and supportive. This location is a good representative of the services our government offers us. The selection of books is a good mix of the newly released fiction and nonfiction. There is a good selection of DVDs and books on CD.
There are two «warnings» that I feel compelled to include. This location has «Storyville»…or as I like to call it «Boredbutoverstimulatedspoiledscreaminglittlekidvi­lle» Avoid this place like a den of H1N1 on rainy days and Saturday mornings!
The other «danger hours» are right after school lets out, I would say 3:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The place transforms into some kind of twisted variation on the Breakfast Club theme of John Hughes fame.
I say variation because these are not merely misguided but lovable miscreants with a chip on their shoulder (like the movie). These are the one step away from juvie hall, scary, hypersexualized, living in a hip hop video, wannabe gansta’ scary scions of our future. We (society writ large) are in serious trouble.
You might get lucky and just have some kid next to you singing along to the latest rap video on the public computers, but unfortunately you are just as likely to be immersed in either a profanity laced conversation or observe the actual prelude to a life ruining teenage pregnancy. Forget the «get a room», the parents of these kids should hose them down on the patio before they let them in for dinner. I’ve seen foreign porno that was less disturbing than what passes for modern PDA…