Man, I really love Cal Poly's school library. My brother attended this University, and a few of my…read moreold friends graduated here. I used to also help friends study here. It's a big library with lots of books, computers, old magazines, and up to date magazines. Very very huge place to study. Nice professional staff to help out too. It's a awesome place to study.

I'm a current student at Cal Poly and I always study here whenever I'm on campus. The library is…read morehuge and has six floors that students can study at or find research. In addition, study rooms are available but they have to be booked and reserved ahead of time. If you seek really quiet or near-isolated areas, the 5th and 6th floors are the places to go. Wi-Fi is complimentary in the library and I believe that you can also eat/drink inside. (Or at least that's what I do, haha). The amount and supply of library books and research materials are endless and superfluous. If you are a student who is looking into borrowing physical hard copies to support your research, I highly recommend the library. The library also has flexible and long hours that can stretch late into the night, which is perfect for those who are staying in to study.

Love this library! It's great that it is open to the public and the La Verne community. I enjoy…read morestudying here. Restrooms are on the left wall when you walk in. It's clean and has great hours everyday. 3 hour parking on 3rd street, near C street intersection. No food allowed

It's so much bigger than my school library, and even though it has a mix of old- and new-school…read morevibes, it's amazing overall. My roommate and I fell in love with it--especially since it stays open until 12 AM, giving us plenty of time to work on assignments outside of our dorm. The cutest part is the beautiful purple flowers wrapped around the pillars near the entrance.

So like honestly, Rivera is super slept on. Sure it is older than Orbach, but does Orbach have…read morefootrests underneath the tables?! Rivera does! During finals week when everyone heads back onto campus to study after dinner, I guarantee that you will not find a table in Orbach until at least 10pm. Rivera? Go during finals week at 6pm, there will be a lot of tables open. Sure it's only open until 2am during finals, but by that point, you're practically dead already unless you're on addy or hella caffeine. Either way, you should treat yourself to the nice refreshing walk or drive over to Orbach at 12am when you know the seats will be open up. Alright, I gotta get back to studying for finals~

This is the oldest library on the UCR campus, which opened in 1954, and is one of the 2 main…read morelibraries (the other is Orbach Science Library). There is a basement and 3 floors. This place is usually packed floor to floor during finals week and midterms, too. Nonetheless, there is ample quantity of seating on each floor. A major flaw about this library is the incredibly dim lighting in some areas, so it's harder to concentrate when working on homework or studying. However, in the morning and afternoon, there is natural lighting that streams through the second floor windows, which somewhat makes up for the bad lighting in this library.

It's for the homeless people nobody reads books they sleep on the couch they walk out and leave…read moretheir stuff, plugged up and leave the library. It's not a good library for nobody to go to. If you're not homeless I get it but I don't get it I never seen a library like this, never in my natural born life, don't come here you're probably gonna get robbed. They stole one of my cars from the gym across the street it's just not a good place they don't do nothing about it. so the homeless people just sit on the couch and nothing it's not a good library lol. and I go to sleep on the couch with a dirty shoes on the couch don't come here. if you do come here, you're going to feel very uncomfortable, and everybody is homeless in a library from the youth to the old.

Although I love going to libraries in stand alone buildings, I really enjoy discovering libraries…read morein unexpected locations such as a mall. Upon entering this library location, we were warmly greeted by a library employee. The library building layout is spacious and has clearly defined spaces for kids, teens, and adults. The water fountains and public bathrooms are currently closed however since the library is located in the mall, you can find a nearby bathroom by leaving the library.There are two public use computers available for public use as well as COVID-19 signage and hand sanitizer on tables throughout the library. I especially appreciated that they have a community resources binder available for the public to view and provides community members with the option to add any additional resources to the binder. With a laid back environment, colorful artwork on the walls, and friendly library staff, we will definitely be visiting this library location again soon.

Two very dedicated and talented people, Felisa and Tara, helped this senior citizen today! Felisa…read morelistened carefully and got the ball rolling. Tara is an expert with Scan/Save/Share techniques! With their assistance, my 50 year old college transcript was sent to apply for a substitute teaching position.

Everyone is always so friendly here! The kids love coming here for books as well as the activities…read morethey provide. This branch is not as crowded as it's a Chino Hills counter part. But also not as new but still updated. It's very quiet and nice here.

The setup on Saturdays, until about noon (so they say), is a canopy that looks like the ones people…read moreuse, when they give away the free phones. I'm saying that to say....there's no access inside the building on a Saturday, for a few hours. I went there, because I had to print something out. I'm not sure how much of a help they could be, being outside and didn't ask, since what I went for, couldn't be accomplished. I know this is only a temporary location, but they moved from the hood, to the trenches.

I see low star ratings but I've enjoyed bringing my 6 and 4-year olds to this library for a few…read moreyears now. There is plenty of free parking (the Main Library in Downtown Riverside is much bigger but has a limited number of free spaces and you would need tokens from the Kids Center librarian on kids activity days to pay if you're in a Pay-to-Park spots). Although this location has some homeless people outside sometimes, the inside is nice. Service: Staff have been very friendly these past few years from Mrs. Gloria, who's frequently seen at the main checkout counter or running the Baby Playtime and Preschool Playtime Hours, to the young ladies who assist with the crafts. Activities: In the summer (going on now) they have free lunch for kids under 18 on Mondays through Fridays. So you can take your young child to Baby Storytime on Tuesdays or Preschool Storytime on Wednesdays then stay for the lunch (Riverside City Program) between 12:00-1:30. Don't forget to sign up for their Summer Reading Program where your child can get a prize for every 5 books read or read to them if they're very young. Prizes (in order) include a free swim, free kid's meal at Old Spaghetti Factory, a free mini churro, free ice cream with purchase at First Class Pizza, Free Kid's Meal at Chipotle, Free kid's meal at Raising Cane's, Free personal pizza at Roundtable, Free 3 oz. yogurt at Yogurtland, Shop Riverside Discount Card, and a free book (select titles) at Barnes & Noble. They also have toys that can be checked out for two weeks. There's a catalog of toys including Legos and Magnatiles or dolls that can go home with the use of a library card.

I think this is a solid library in a good location…read more I think my favorite part is the garden next to the library!

It's a library. It's clean and neat and quiet and has lots of books.this site won't let me close it…read morewithout doing a review. I hope this is long enough.

My wife used to go here to study for her college classes. She was not studying law, but she found…read morethat this library was quiet and she could concentrate on her studies without any interruptions. Back then, little did I know that I would actually need this library's resources. A company that we were dealing with decided to call us to small claims court. In my whole lifetime, I have never been sued. So this was a first for me. I didn't know what to do. When I came to this library for help and the staff guided me in the right direction. They put me in touch with a small claims adviser where I received help on what to do with my case. They also told me about an event they were holding that month where lawyers would come to the library to help people with their law questions. We came to this event, and we were able to talk to a lawyer about how to handle our case. All of this was a tremendous help. I am not involved with the law profession, however, I have always found the law and what lawyers do to be really interesting. I took it upon myself to go to this library to study on all the aspects of the law involving our case. The staff at this library cannot give law advise. However, if you ask them a question about a law, they will do their best to show you how to find information about that law. I came in so often that at one point in time, the staff members almost knew me on a first name basis. This library is filled with the most professional law books that anyone can find. It would cost a fortune to acquire the books that this library has. You can look up a law on the internet and get a limited amount of information on a law. However, if you look up the same law in the books at this library, you will find cross reference information to other cases that involve that law. It is like you are looking at a treasure trove of cross references to many other cases. You cannot find these kinds of links on the internet. It takes some learning to get to the information you need. This is where the staff will help you. I have found that this law library and other law libraries in other cities are great assets to have. I give the staff here a thumbs up for their great service to our community. By the way. The good news is we won our small claims case.

Being a Law Student and having a full time job it's hard enough but being able to come to the law…read morelibrary and do my case law and studies in a quiet and clean library is awesome not to mention the Law Librarian is very helpful Mr. Alex has gone far and beyond to help me everytime that im in the area.