Sacramento Public Library - Central

I love the public library. Excellent fiction section and the staff are so helpful! You can also borrow a California state park 3 weeks at a time (note: this is not the same as the national park pass). These passes provides free vehicle day-use entry to over 200 participating state parks (see participating parks here: https://www.parks.ca.gov)

My hubby I stopped in yesterday and they were celebrating Black History month in a big way with their current exhibit; "Take Me to the Water" Histories of the Black Pacific by Dr. Caroline Collins! The exhibit will run until March 16 and they have cases of authentic artifacts and lots of large posters with information about African history! For example did you know Nick Gabaldón, was the first African American surfer? This library is grand, with elevators that take you to 4 floors, a kid's space, teen space, computers, etc! We rented DVDS to watch together and age appropriate books and board games for our 7 year old! I would HIGHLY recommend visiting the Central free public library that opened to the public in 1879. In 1992 it joined the National Register of Historic Places! We'll be back to explore more, my hubby said their kid's section is huge!! SYOY! :-)* Song Credit: Whenever by LiQWYD

Sacramento Public Library is in a great location downtown and occupies several floors. On the first floor are two chess puzzles with answers available at the front desk.I am avid player of chess so appreciated this. I felt they had a compelling collection of vegan cookbooks and helpful folks work.Nice library!

First visit was very pleasant - loved seeing lots of shelves of books, and the different floors. The librarian was very friendly and helpful, and gave me tips about the Sacramento public libraries all around.

Excellent location downtown. I know books are getting a little more scare during the pandemic and some of the shelves were a bit bare. But what a great place on my first visit in person. The online app, Libby, to borrow audio and ebooks is terrific! By the way, the library website is easy to use and always up-to-date with all their locations open hours.The building and inside decor is classic and I love it. The elevator and stairs were in good working order. Good covid safe distancing was appreciated.Parking is all around but in this area it can be a challenge to be right in front or on the same block. The front entrance parking has 30 minute limit most of the time so a bit easier to find a spot and go in for a quick browse and borrow.

OKAY BUT I QUESTION SAFETY. I was staying in town for the night while traveling north and needed a place with wifi to work on some grad school homework for a few hours. Regrettably, I came here and wishes I would have just gone to a Starbucks or other coffee shop.There were a LOT of homeless people in this library. I thought going up to the top where they have a specific location for college and careers would be a good place to sit down and get to work but boy, was I wrong! The higher up you go in the building, the more bums! I ended up sitting and felt like I constantly had to be looking around 'on guard' and making sure my briefcase was still close next to me. Groups of sketchy people kept forming by random walls and though a security guard or two would circulate from time to time, I always wished they were there when they weren't. What's worse is that a lot of these individuals stunk.... really bad!If you are actually looking to study and feel safe doing so, I recommend steering clear of this place and going to a coffee shop or something. It may be louder but at least you'll feel safe and cleaner!

The staff there are so kind and considerate. My club and I were drenched in the rain without anywhere to go since we biked from Davis, and the staff there gave us our own meeting room to eat and rest. Big thank you from the Vietnamese Student Association at UC Davis!

The library is very nice, the staff is very accommodating. The children's section was filled with many wonderful selections. The computer was very fast. There were many computer's available, I am sorry that there we're not more children there to utilize the wonderful services available to them. I am reminded by my visit that as I have fewer funds to spend on entertainment, the public library has a treasure of entertainment available at no cost to me. Audible books, kindle books, magazines, movies , WiFi, computers, board games, video games.

February 4, 2022Update of any review one thousand ninety five. My previous has sixteen votes, nineteen votes, and twenty seven votes.People say there homeless come into this library. I not seeing that. I like children section. There is one shelf that I will call The State Books shelf. There are fifty one, that is fifty of states and Washington DC. Even Washington DC has a state flag. Red line with white stars, white, more red line with white stars, more white, third line of red lines with white stars. Each these state books has interesting facts for that state, the state icons, state nicknames, details of different popular towns in that state. There are times when the librarian(s) will draw me map of how walk back to the hotel.

It's a quiet place. It would have been better if there aren't homeless people hanging out... they can be a bit loud.