Hennepin County Library - Webber Park — Attraction in Minneapolis

Poorly laid out with kids space and work spaces directly beside each other. The “solution” is quiet rooms you have to reserve and are almost always in use. All I’d like is a space with a chair and table across the library from the kids area that I can sit at and work and not be directly next to them but they all have library computers at them. There are chairs without tables but no actual work spaces. I always leave my community library disappointed and annoyed because I can’t actually use the space without being disrupted by kids playing loudly or people talking full volume right next to me.

On top that people are just not being courteous anymore. Multiple times now I’ve gone and they are having conversations at normal speaking volumes and having full blown conversations on the phone for 15+ minutes. Libraries used to be places people could work with reasonable expectations of peace but even with my headphones in I’m being disrupted in them now.

I didn’t expect to be such a crotchety person in my early 30s but I can’t work in a space that is so chaotic when I can’t get more than 20 feet...

I LOVE the new library. I like the staff. I love the money being put into the neighborhood. I love that it is giving back to the community and the community members. What I don't love is having kids and teenagers sitting around the entrance swearing at me as I enter, making fun of older people walking out, or trying to intimidate my son as he walks in. I 100% support a safe place for our community's kids, but listening to kids scream and swear while playing on...

I took my toddler here for some reading and play time. It may be unfair to group or assume that libraries provide a baseline of things for toddlers and kids to do. This library didn't have almost anything to do for kids. And it was dead quiet as well so even if we had stuck around, it would have felt awkward. The library isn't terribly large and the parking lot is small. The bathrooms are pretty...