Westfield Memorial Library — Attraction in Westfield

Beware! Enter at your own risk! If I could give WML zero stars I would. This place is staffed by nitty bitties, eccentrics, men rejected from the priesthood and people who were probably emotionally abused as children. This place attracts degenerates and perverts of all walks of life from all around. I worked at WML as a page on and off for several years. I took 10 days off work for a trip. When I returned a librarian told me I longer worked there because another certain librarian did not like me. Years later after I moved back into town, I went to WML to borrow materials. A stingy lady behind the desk confiscated my card. The same card I held for 20 yrs. The stingy lady informed me my card expired only the day before. I asked the stingy lady as a courtesy to extend it another week until I got "my papers" in order. No dice. Instead the stingy lady offered to check out the materials on my mom's card while my mom was not even present! A few weeks later I used the computer lab. I went into the stacks for 1-2 mins, returned only to find some degenerate man at the computer I was logged on to. I told him to move. After a few attempts the degenerate eventaully complied. The degenerate moved to the computer next to me. Then the degenerate harassed me, I ignored the degerate. But the degenerate kept it up. A few patrons chimed in with the degenerate. A old bag lady sitting three computers away, kept saying to me "it was your fault, you left". I told the old bag lady to "mind your own G.D. business." The librarians did not intervene. The librarians could not see what was going on because the administration moved the reference desk back away from the computer lab and hidden it from plain view or either they were afraid. The degenerate then got up, threatened to assault me on the spot. The old bag lady egged the degenerate on to fight me. I told the degenerate, I did not want any trouble. I packed my bag, proceeded to leave when the degenerate chased me out. I told the stingy lady at the circ. desk to call the police. That was the last time I used and ever will use WML. That was May '15. Since then I go to the Mountainside Public Library. The staff at Mountainside are courteous not stingy, not eccentric, no smelly degenerates, ampil parkig, facilities are cleaner than Westfield and most of all, it's quiet. WML has been going down hill since Tony had...

I came to the library with my step daughter and son to do homework. We are a multicultural family. For some reason, the elderly appearing white female librarian, from youth services, decided to walked up to us to ask if i was tutoring my son because we we were sitting at the table "reserved for children and their parents & caregivers only." She did not ask the caucasian appearing adult male and young boy sitting next to us at a similarly reserved table.

I found this to be a bit offensive and would recommend some cultural competency courses for the staff so that do not offend other patrons of this library in the future. Dispelling myths and sterotypes of particular culture may be a good place to start.

My son would like to add that her tone was not really appropriate for...

I went to register my child for the 1,000 books before kindergarten here. The older lady with short hair and glasses at the children’s section was not very welcoming, she was quick to tell me to go do that online when she had a computer and they were not busy. I’ve read many reviews about BIPOC parents and individuals speaking about the lack of cultural competence and it shows. Because I insisted that I was told I can come in person and do it, she got her supervisor and I was able to register my baby. Her supervisor was a very sweet older lady who was helpful. Westfield is becoming a more diverse community and the staff needs to get...