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| - Being that today is Halloween, the concept of trick or treat lingers in my head. I started to realize that when you live near a good library that it is trick or treat all year long. The trick is to suspend reality for a period of time to enjoy the treat of a literary adventure. The Paseo Verde Library is a palace holding hundreds of literary adventures waiting for an adventurous reader.
The Paseo Verde Library is a unit of the Henderson Library system. It is different from the Las Vegas - Clark County Library system in that only Henderson residents are permitted to borrow books.
The library blends in with the beautiful Green Valley Ranch Master planned community. The library is a nicely designed building inside and out. The parking lot is large making it easy to find a parking space. The parking lot couldn't be any more protected being contiguous to the Henderson Police Department. As soon as you step inside the library, you feel that you have entered a palace holding books, DVDs, CDs, computer terminals, and numerous media. It is a spacious library. Upon walking in there is a coffee shop to the right. I believe this is the only library in the Las Vegas Valley with a coffee shop. Inside the library one of the first sights is the colossal children's library. There is a wall of new books to the left with a large library services counter on the right. In the center of the library are the computers. I think that having the computers in the middle of the library is advantageous because you don't have the closed in feeling that the computer rooms create. The library's shining moment is the south room with glass walls overlooking the Las Vegas Strip. This room is more than a view of the Strip. It is a literary shrine to the Las Vegas Strip. The bookshelves feature volumes of books that tell the story of the Las Vegas Strip and the people who helped build the city. The books in the south room range from Las Vegas to the State of Nevada. This is one of the premier selections of Las Vegas reading material in the valley.
The key to this Palace of books and media is a Henderson Library card. With this card, you are able to choose from a large selection of books. Speaking of books, a major difference from the Las Vegas - Clark County Library system is that they use the duey decimal system in place of letters. Instead of music being "ML", here it might be "784.05."
My books of choice are biographies, rock & roll history, travelogues, and American history. This is the first library that I patronized in the Las Vegas region. When I visited my brother here as a tourist in 2003, we stopped here. A year later when I joined my brother in Vegas between school and a job, I 'd spend some of my idle time in the library. This is the library that granted me my library card. Since 2004, I have rarely left the library empty handed.
When it comes to CDs, the majority of the Las Vegas - Clark County libraries beat Paseo Verde library on selection. There are some drawers toward the back holding CDs.
In the future I there will be more trick or treating at the Paseo Verde Library. But, first I need to finish reading some of the books that I borrowed from the Las Vegas - Clark County Library system.
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