I don't know what the negative reviews here are all about but this, along with Stewart Hall Library…read morewere the libraries of my childhood all the way into university so I have warm, fuzzy feelings about this place. This was my old neighborhood so I had this library, the Pointe-Claire pool and Terra Cotta Park (which was much wilder and more fun then when it still had a running stream) to grow up with. Thanks to the grace of this library, I discovered everything while growing up. The young adults selection of books were great particularly in the late 1970's and early 1980's. Because of that, I still have a soft spot for Dell Yearling paperbacks from that era, with writers like Judy Blume (of course!), Patricia Reilly Giff, Ellen Conford, Constance C. Greene , C. S Lewis, Lloyd Alexander, Alan Garner, Jonathan Bellairs, and dozens of other writers and hundreds of titles I can't remember right now. As a preteen, they used to carry vinyl records here before the advent of CD's and it was thanks to this library that I was able to access the entire record catalog of gateway bands like The Smiths, Depeche Mode, Love and Rockets and R.E.M when they were considered alternative and underground and very hard to come by. You have to remember this was long before the internet and getting access to that music was next to impossible unless you stayed up late to listen to CBC Radio's Brave New Waves with Brent Bambury or New Music Foundation on Monday nights on CHOM FM with Benoit Dufresne and Claude Rajotte. This kicked off a love of alternative, post-punk British New Wave music which has still stayed with me. I don't know if they still have little after-school craft workshops for little kids, but they did in my time. I also remember that their water fountain ALWAYS had unusually cold water and the woods behind the library had a few paths which would take you down to the shops. In the springtime, these woods were covered with trillium flowers. I don't know if this is still the case but during the 1990s, this was the highest-per-capita use library in Canada among municipal and public libraries, which should tell you something about the collection here.

Hey! It's a library! Full of books and people that are reading or sleeping or being hushed after…read moretalking too loud. Isn't it what a library should be like? I say yes. It's old, packed with books and tables and chairs, some more comfy than others and actual living plants everywhere there's a window. I arrived here around 4pm on a Tuesday (2016 elections, this might be my very last review before Trump or Hillary wins!?!) and kids were all over having fun and talking loudly. I asked if there was a quieter area and the man directed me to a peaceful oasis which is the reference room. I read another review which was a little negative but I honestly don't get it. This place is wonderful. BTW, you need a password to go on their free wifi. This library is right next door to the pool and arena and Terra Cotta park! What a great area!

My visit to this library was during the Covid-19 period when my library card expired…read more I wasn't really interested in borrowing physical books but because I recently got a Kobo eReader and libraries which are part of Montreal (such as Bibliotheque du Boise) offer the ability to download certain ebooks via the Overdrive platform. Montreal libraries had the possibility of borrowing ebooks and without renewing my library card, I was able to borrow ebooks for a certain number of months and then go through this same process again but I decided to just visit the library to renew my library card. I verified that the library was open and went there to renew my library card. Upon entering, there was a security guard at the door who asked me whether I was picking up books and I informed her that I was showing up to renew my library card. I used the hand sanitizer which was there and waited to be served by one of the library workers. Once she was ready, I gave my driver's license (showing proof of address residency) and my old library card and within a few minutes, she provided me with a new library card. When I got home, I was able to borrow Overdrive ebooks from the libraries part of the Montreal network's website: https://bibliomontreal.overdrive.com/

A surprisingly great local suburban library, twinned with a community art galerie and cultural…read morecenter. It's full of bright lake light, surrounded by gardens, fountains, trees with name plates celebrating dedicated volunteers and their mums. There are quiet rooms, free internet, and comfy well lit reading chairs. And the collection is surprisingly up to date, I went today looking for a bunch of books off the NY Times Best books of 2011 list and they had them all, fiction and non. Or I should say, the system had them all listed as available. Finding them on the shelf was a different matter as someone seems to play a little fast and loose with the alphabet over there, but frankly everyone who works there looks like a volunteer or their mum just doing their best to keep cool stuff on the shelves and interesting performances coming in for the kids to maybe one day earn a tree with a name plate, so I kind of like the hint of lovingly befuddled. The music section is surprisingly diverse too, I walked out with a bunch of Joni Mitchell and M.I.A. today and nobody batted an eye.