San Gabriel Library — Attraction in San Gabriel

This place has a very good place in my heart. I always visit the library to borrow books and dvds that are available from all the libraries in the Los Angeles county. It is best to visit when it is open first thing in the morning rather than later in the afternoon because students would come and make the space all crowded and noisy. Not that I would have a problem with that being an issue but it is overstimulating for an introvert like me. Other than that you can use the computer for two hours and if you need another additional hour, just ask the librarian. I use the computer back then when I didn't have a computer around the early 2010s.

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To me, the library is supposed to be a quite place for people to read or to study. But this library is just not a quite place. I've been going to this library every Friday and Saturday after dropping off my daughter to her art school for over a year and I've never experience any quite environment in this library. I've never see any of the staff members work here lowering their voice while talking. And the people visit the library have their phone ring on at regular volume. No one seems to lower their voice when talking. The kids screaming in there. I've never seen any staff member tried to warn or stop the visitors when they make noises or let their phone rings loud. This library has becoming a...

My gold standard for a public library is San Marino’s Crowell Library. The San Gabriel Library, sadly, pales in comparison to the many services offered at Crowell Library. Often times the small and cramped space of The San Gabriel Library gives a poor study environment and it’s quite often loud in this library as well. Overall it just seems a little bit underfunded, which is really a shame since libraries have cemented itself in history as a sacred environment for fostering intellectual development. I don’t think that the San Gabriel Library should have been a place the city decided to...