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| - If you want to see an epic review that best captures the heart of how I feel about libraries in general, I would suggest heading over to read my review of the Myers Park branch. Most of that stands true here, but on a huge scale.
When I dove back into the world of the local libraries my first stop was Myers Park. I didn't immediately know Morrison existed. This was several months ago, mind you, when Morrison was coming up on the final days of remodel and gearing up for a grand reopening. I happened to catch the location on a map of branches and realized it was much closer to home. It's conveniently, and unexpectedly, right in the middle of lots of shopping and restaurants in South Park. Talk about prime location, especially for a library.
This place is huge. The extent I've explored of it spans two floors with lots of private study rooms, a huge computer lab and an even bigger outdoor patio upstairs for those beautiful days. You can borrow laptops so you're not confined to a computer space in the lab. There's ample seating basically strewn about. Large help desks are both upstairs and downstairs. Downstairs there's a large children's area, the hold shelves and several computers for searching the catalog and checking things out. Just in the entryway are lots of forms and helpful guides for various government programs - taxes, healthcare, etc. The library is truly here to help out anybody in the local community.
Probably the coolest thing to me is the RFID based book checkout counters. You can place several books at a time on the mat by the computer. Then just scan your card and enter your password. Without even running the barcodes under the scanner, bam, your books are checked out! Another neat thing is that they have lots of books upstairs that are in different languages. I've even seen different written languages like Chinese and Cyrillic (presumably Russian) on books. I seriously have to spend more time here because the best thing about it is that it's totally free! Probably the greatest example of your tax dollars at work.
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