Project 1: Library Visit

The library that I most recently visited was of course the closest one to my parents house. The Lakewood Library,currently called Angelo M. Iacoboni Library, which was reopened on February 12,2001 after several months of renovation is located on 4990 Clark avenue, Lakewood California. The telephone number is 562-866-1777, and the website address is http://www.colapublib.org/libs/iacoboni/.

I don't exactly know what the seating capacities are for this library and the services are okay there. In my opinion, the librarians and workers are people who don't know what they are doing, I say this because of my last visit was kind of horrible, but who knows what other people think. There are approximately 253,404 books from different selections such as Science fiction, Fiction, Adult Romance, Children's books, Young adults, books on different languages like Arabic and Chinese, DVDs, CDs, books on CDs, videos and magazines. The internet access there is great and can only be used with a valid library card, but unfortuanently you do have to wait, sometimes for a period of up to an hour and a half. They do however have Express computers which you can use with a valid library card and can go online for 15 minutes but sometimes people don't follow that rule and tend to hog the the computer up.

All those materials that I mentioned up above are usually what the public can check-out. The only books they don't let people check out however are the Library of Congress Subject Headings books. They are usually pretty good about letting you keep the materials you checked out for a good 3 weeks or so also. Three services that are available at this library are the computers with internet access, the computers with the catalogs on them which don't offer internet access, and of course the information desk which contain two people who sit behind to answer your questions. They also provide services for the children of Lakewood which allows the children to do story telling and they can also use the computers from 3:00 to 5:00 P.M.

I used to love going to this library, especially when I was in Elementary school and didn't have anything else better to do in the summers. How I see it now and how I remembered it then is different, especially how the library cards looked. Our old library card were green with gold writing on it that said lakewood library. Now the library cards look like the picture up above. How boring! Also the services upgraded indefinently and I say this because they never had express computers and the computers then were old and these computers of course are new with easy to search catalogs. It's still one floor, but that's okay I do prefer that over two story libraries. I hope those of you who haven't visited this library, visit it at least once in your lifetime, and I really do hope that after reading this blog it doesn't scare you away from visting this historic landmark. :)