West Chester Library

All that natural light! I love to study here.
It’s huge high ceilings and big windows are the best. And it is quiet all the time! Even in the main areas.
I’ve never been to a more up-​to-​date and modern library before. I really enjoy it!
Make sure to bring change with you though for printing!
Huge selection of different medias! It’s a blast :)

Ok, so I did write a letter of complaint to the Midpoint Library system… and surprisingly, I got a response back that was kind, courteous, and apologetic. I do hope that the librarians gain a little patience and understanding. Honestly, I don’t want my child to be disruptive. Really, I don’t. And I’m sorry that the assumption was, before you even talked to me, that I’m an incompetent, insensitive jerk of a parent, but if you, dear librarian, treat me with a little compassion and understanding, maybe you’d be surprised at the outcome. I’ll try again, I think, and hope for a better experience.

This is the best library I have been to hands down. They have a quit room, study rooms, plenty of places to sit and study, great book, music, and movie selection. Oh almost forgot to mention they have a little venting machine area that has coffee!

This library is amazing!
It has a great kids section, lots of computers, study areas, private study and private meeting rooms and the library itself is huge.
Newly built a couple of years ago, the West Chester Library is one of the best that I’ve ever been to.
Check them out online. You can request any item from not only the West Chester Library and the Middletown Library system, but now with OhioLink and Search Ohio, you may request items state wide. Books, DVD’s, CD’s… just about any resource you can think of. You request it and then just pick it up off of the reserved shelf and check it out. It doesn’t get any easier than that.
Would I go back? I go at least 2 to 4 times per month. So, yes. I always go back!

I’ve loved the library for as long as I can remember, though never really for studying! As an undergraduate, I found it was much easier to socialize or hold meetings in the library than actually work on papers and study for exams. However, as I began my endeavors to study for the LSAT, I discovered my home was not very study friendly. Watching TV or taking a snooze seemed way too enticing, and a coffee shop or bookstore were both too loud.
Lucky for me, I discovered the new West Chester Library. With it’s designated quiet room with floor-​to-​ceiling windows, and plenty of tables with abundant outlets, it was my go-​to place for 5 straight months.
I haven’t done much in terms of checking out books, etc, but they do seem to have a pretty decent collection, along with a hardy CD and DVD section.
I only have two complaints: the hours and the temperature of the quiet room. During the summer, the library is closed on Sundays (Uhh, what? Don’t people have more free time in the summer? Get to work, librarians!) and, no matter the season, I always find it it frigid in the quiet room. If you’re frequently cold, like me, I highly recommend dressing in layers or at least bringing a sweater/​sweatshirt to thrown on if you get cold.

As a graduate student the library was my happy place. A quiet place where I could drown myself in Dunkin Donuts coffee, frantically horde books like an insane person and give the evil eye to anyone who may be zippering their bag or turning a page just a little too loudly.
Thank you Jesus for the new West Chester Library. There are plenty of tables with sufficient outlets (!!!) so go ahead and plug in that laptop. The book selection seems decent, but is probably dim compared to that of an inner city library. There is also a selection of DVD’s and CD’s if reading isn’t on your to-​do list.
My favorite part is the quiet study room. I’m the type who is disturbed by the clicking of a clock, so it’s critical that I can set up shop somewhere that has been designated as a quiet zone. That way I can Unilocal my heart out without having to dish out the stink eye.

This is the library that I grew up at, my late fees are so outstanding that I can no longer check out books at the location, but you had better believe that I still venture in when I’m bored to grab a book and read for an hour or two. The West Chester Library is a branch of the Middletown Public Library, not to be confused with the Cincinnati Public Library’s many branches.
As a kid, I devoured books like candy. By the age of ten I had finished virtually every «young adult fiction» title in the library so I struck up a relationship with the one friendly librarian (there were two, one was terrifying). She helped me through the adult fiction section and selected books that would fill my appetite for the written word without spoiling my childhood innocence with smut.
There is still a summer reading program at this library, the very same one that I took part in as a kid. It’s free to participate in and kids get stickers and small prizes as rewards for finishing books… educational and fun.
The interior of the library is a little outdated but I think of it as «well-​loved.»