San Diego Central Library — Attraction in San Diego

WARNING! Please read! Update. Recently, when I walked into the women's 5th floor restroom at this library I was startled by a male transient (goatee) as he exited one of the stalls. as-526180-4430 Without saying a word, I immediately walked out restroom to await his departure. As I did, he uttered angry insults to which I replied "I'm giving you privacy" etc. A male employee (S) arrived with a cell phone. As I explained to the employee that I was merely waiting, the transient became silent and remained in the restroom another 2 or 3 minutes before departing with his bags and his hood over his head. Note: During all of this, another lone male patron silently held a cell phone while sitting inside the glass room, directly across from the women's 645 restroom. 526180

I am almost done as a patron of this library. While I feel disturbed about this verbal incident, I do NOT fault the employees or security. I know there are recent gender laws about public restrooms. Yet, this could be VERY dangerous for children. This transient might NOT even be a patron! In 1998, a transient brutally murdered a 6-year old in a public restroom, Oceanside. A few months ago there was a gun fatality near this library, 92101. Just weeks ago a man was swinging an axe inside a Pacific Beach library (92109) until he shot by the police. Please be careful in all public restrooms!!

Original review 2019: All restroom entrances are left open during operating hours due to security issues. 9102 Even worse, each door to the toilet stall now has a huge hole cut into the top of the door so you have little privacy while using the toilet.

A few days ago as I walked into the women's restroom, there was an old homeless man (beard, backpack and all) coming out of one of the stalls. I immediately stepped out and informed a nearby female employee and security guard. Thankfully they confronted the man who was STILL hanging out inside the women's restroom.

WARNING TO PARENTS: Do not allow your child to enter or remain at this library alone, day or night. Never, ever allow your young son/daughter enter any of the restrooms before you inspect the stalls. This library is just one example of how the increasing numbers of homeless and mentally ill are becoming a health and safety issue for ALL San Diego residents.

This is the main library of the 8th largest city in the U.S. with the ballpark nearby. I am not rich by any means so my comment is NOT intended to degrade the homeless. I hope that EVERYONE will see this is a problem that affects ALL of us. Between our politicians and private builders let us pray affordable housing will be available for all who...

I am appalled at the way the lady with the white hair and glasses had approached me at the reference desk when I had asked her to help me wit h my computer, number 209, becuase the mouse had suddenly froze for no reason for over five minutes, she told me that I was moving it too fast, when I wasn't. I had been filling out job applications and, doing mostly typing, so I has no need to use my mouse that much and also, she said I needed to wait for the mouse to catch-up to me, and I knew that was not the problem and I told her that and she still did not listen to me. I had been waiting like I said for over five minutes and I still did not want to move. I had to reboot the monitor, pressing the circle button underneathe the word Master on the computer, which fixed my computer, but I lost about ten extra minutes that I did not get back The guy named Bob, who had previously been working at that reference desk before her had nicely helped me with a noise issue on computer 206, which I had been previously sitting at. I plugged in my head phones into it to listen to music and no noise was to be heard, he even plugged in his headphones and he could not hear any noise either, the volume was up all the way and the mute button was not on either. We even made sure we were using the proper place to plug in our headphones in, not the hole with the speaker and the picture of the headphones next to it, but the other one, and still nothing! SO he confirmed with me that it was the computer that was the problem and that it might need to be re-booted. And nicely told me to move to 209, shortly before I had the second I-T problem. SO why is it so hard for this lady to understand that it was an I-T issue. She was really rude and made me feel like I was an interruption and an inconvenience to her. Wow..... These computer have had I-T issues in the past and every once in a while they still do. Why is it that she was not able to understand that and talked to me in a rude abnd impatient tone of voice? This is why Bob works here,...

I HAVE NEVER SEEN A MORE MIXED UP LIBRARY IN MY LIFE 1 handicap access is not esasly accessible to front door 2 the first floor don't have any bathrooms 3 the elevators are not side by side, 4 there is only 1 toilet on each floor that could have over30 people 5the elevators take forever to go any where 6 the ceilings are a dingy ugly gray not white 7the colors look like dull dingy on the walls 8 the cielings should have Ben Brite white, 9the walls should have Ben painted Brite cheerfull inviting pastel colors of blue, pink, yellow, lite green, 10 there is so much useless unnecessary over building that made the building way over price, the place looks like dark dingy prison, 11 the front entrance should have Ben on the top of the hill,making quick easy handicapped wheel chair access, if a escalator was put in for walking people why not something for wheel chair people, 12 I am wondering if competive bidding took place, I am wondering who approved this most crazy plans, or did anybody even look at the plans, I would like to see if other plans were presented or was this a closed shop deal, I would like to know how much they was paid, it seems to me under the art excuse you can pad the bill with useless over hangs, $incele$$ gobeldegook, and oh yeah march 2023 I went to a public invited to give your ideas to improve the library and it's like everything I suggested was ignored, 1 paint walls and ceilings Brite white, get rid of useless light blocking cieling over hangs? put the front entrance at the top of the hill easier handicapped entrance, put bathroom on first floor, put more bathrooms on each floor, have elevaters in easy line of sight, have light colored computer keyboards like they have in "the learning center that are a Brite yellow with bold black letters and numbers, so why would they invite the public and ignore every one of my ideas to only make the library more user friendly, what other library do you got to bring in a flash light to see...