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| - The valley's library system is more than adequate, but seemingly has seen its hours cut deeper and deeper in the last five years.
The hold system is awesome. And the selection is fairly vast, although they contain noticeable holes in some areas (do they truly need 128 copies of the same horrible dvd [order ten less, and get a couple of arthouse films instead])
When the economy was met at full strength with The Great Recession, it was arguably a competition between LVCCLD and North Las Vegas library systems in regards to who would slash their hours and staff more. One would open an hour later, and the other then would open two hours later; now we are stuck with Centennial Hills opening at 10AM! Pretty ridiculous.
Moreover, if you ever have anything of yours stolen from this library branch: Centennial Hills, you may have imagined that with the London-esque system of CCTVs (about seventy of them, it appears) that it would be quite simple to have the footage reviewed and your possession(s) recovered. Think again. They won't help you. Knowing this, from personal experience, I don't let anything out of my sight/grasp, and never even go to this library anymore. College/Univ libraries, for those that are students or that sign up as just community members, are far quieter and actually have hours of operation that have them open before lunch and after dinner. - E
Postscript. Another thing missing here is the overnight media drop-off that North Las Vegas (Aliante, Alexander) has. If you have a dvd or cd, there is a slot to drop it off during non-open hours where the item ends up inside the climate controlled library instead of the oven box outside that would cook the item.
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