Kansas City Public Library: North-East Branch — Attraction in Kansas City

The library is small and quaint; most of the time, pretty quiet. It's a good library to read or write in. There's never a large amount of people in it, so you'll get some amount of privacy too. I've seen mostly people trying to find jobs (myself included) on the computer or children finding books or on the computer, playing Mine Craft or whatever popular game is in right now. The staff are friendly and polite for the most part. One of the security guards is really into his job and can go overboard. He's not mean, just a little too serious. My only complaint about this library is that the selection is VERY limited. It's not a big library so I understand why but still, I would like a little...

The library itself is great and the staff are very friendly and helpful. The issue I see is with the overwhelming amount of homeless people, it looks like a shelter. I understand that it's for everyone but I've seen erratic behavior from a few of the homeless and being very disrespectful to the staff , I have personally witnessed some of them curse and scream, they've stained the new furniture and make a mess in the restroom. I wouldn't feel comfortable bringing children in there. I find it deplorable that the staff can't get more support from the management downtown in dealing with...

Except odd ball hours of 1 -5 pm on Sundays is the place clean and secure to read or to study away from the chaos out here in the world of desperation and strife where one can't find housing even with a monthly income guaranteed each month to cover the rent of whatever place,that cañt be allocated for one damn reason or the other. Staff are professional and helpful to you when you have a query of task at hand ,as I am computer dumb and was helped greatly by staff filling out an on line application.with many other resources on hand to be used to hellp oneself...