Williamson County Public Library

A great library with friendly staff. Decent DVD section to have a free movie night, and wifi throughout. They have presentations, teach some basic computer classes for free, and has some nice natural light. Wish they would have put some PV solar on the roof.

I am a HUGE critic when it comes to this library. «Why?» you may ask. Well, it has much to do with my feelings of government duties and responsibilities and when it comes to this public facility, I believe someone needs to fall on their sword. It’s an absolute cheap horror, from the fake glass dome to the beachwood (or not even wood) staircase to the furnishings and technology. The build quality is astoundingly bad. If you just need a quieter place than Starbucks, you are in for hard seats with no cushion and, depending on the time of year, a room temperature inadequately managed by someone, in another building, from the county. Our counterparts in Brentwood have MANY county facilities done much more satisfactorily AND they are in the same county. What kind of sense does this make? Does the Franklin city government not deem our county facilities as important as Brentwood’s? I doubt they even care. Furthermore, I am in an outrage over the battleground preservation movement that has been going on in this city for more than a decade. The city bought the lot that Pizza Hut owned across the street and put some cannon balls in the middle of the site to commemorate the battleground (who knows how much that cost the city) and brazenly built the dadgum public library right across the street. Is this real life? I’m also pretty sure that the city has something to do with the old BATTLE GROUND ACADEMY (emphasis on the name of the school) site right next door. They are also allowing the construction of some hideous new condos across the side-​street from the library. Good people of Franklin, your money is finding grotesquely incongruous uses around the city. Let’s not even talk about the Country Club of Franklin and Carnton waste of good land and money. But, I digress. So, in essence, what you have here is a below Brentwood standard (even though we are in the same county) facility built on hypocritical grounds (quite literally). These are things that, in total, make the experience of this library unsatisfactory.

This was a fun, free stop during my tour of Nashville. I don’t like large museums because my ADD will set in so Williamson is a perfect sized museum to drop some knowledge on you without you going stir crazy. It is a free museum but please drop a couple of bucks in the donation basket if you enjoyed your time there. The museum was very well laid out and had some interesting things to see. You can get in and out in 20 minutes and was well worth the stop to get out of the summer heat (yes people I have been sitting on some unfinished reviews for a long time).

This is a great library. It’s not the biggest or baddest library in the world, but it’s a decent size for a small town (with inner library loan from the other locations too). The children’s department is really a great place with lots of weekly activities. I’m a big audio book gal (love driving and reading legally!), and while the audio select isn’t awesome, it’s really not to shabby either. I’ve yet to get bored. This place is truly an asset to the community.

Well, within the next year or two my fiancé and I hope to move out to the Franklin/​Cool Springs are as that is where we work. As such this would be one of our local library branches, so this first visit of mine to this location in a way was a preview.
Anyway, we (my fiancé, a friend and I) came out to the Williamson County Library Franklin branch for a talk on touring Tokyo with Animé and Manga in mind. The talk was given by a native Japanese woman who grew up in Tokyo and went to school at MTSU and now lives in Williamson County. Every summer she goes back to Tokyo with her family to visit her parents and she visits all the Animé and Manga related sites while she is there. The talk was very informative and made my fiancé and I want to go to Japan even more now.
As for the library itself, it is really quite nice and reminds me a lot of the Main Davidson County Branch. It is very open and spacious for such a small library, and seems like a great place to visit for some quiet time. My only complaint, and yes it is a library not a café, but if you are going to have a small snack nook at the very least have a trash can and water fountain in the «snack nook» for people to use. Anything beyond that is just icing on the cake, but to make it actually appear as a «snack nook» have a trashcan and a water fountain. Also, great you want to promote your manga and animé sections… how about teaming up with your local animé convention to expand what you can do and do it better.
Just my ten cents, but still great for what it was, and most important of all FREE!

A nice new library! I went for a meeting here in the front conference room. A nice large room, very little heat though, so be prepared. I didn’t have time to check out the actual books section of the library, but from what I could tell, it seemed to be nice.