Fuquay-Varina Public Library

I’m a library fanatic and normally have nothing but good things to say about them. It kind of hurts to expressed my views of dissatisfaction about this one, but I’ll try to do it nicely.
Though a very small government venue, it tries to make due with what it has. It offers limited events, such as Child Story Times. In fact, if you check out their May calendar, this location conducts Story Times, and almost nothing else. There you have it — most outright benefits end there. For instance, lots of Wake County libraries let you book yourself a conference room (for whatever reason), or even a study room as long as reservations are open. Fuquay doesn’t have that (or if they do, request forms don’t appear online.)
Further, their catalog is sparse as far as libraries go. You can walk around the entire room in about 30 seconds. Whenever I do, I end up in the cyber section. It has about 10 computers (maybe less, I don’t remember). They work well enough and they can often be the only reason to even come here.
I don’t know where the town funds are going or how much money Fuquay even makes, but it’s definitely not allotted toward the cultivation of the written word.

This is one of the smallest libraries in the county, but it does have a few things going in its favor. While it doesn’t boast a fiction or non-​fiction section on par with those available at some of the better libraries in the area, it does have a decent selection of large print books as well as a section of books in Spanish (Los Libros!). Of course if you can’t find what it is that you’re seeking you can get books transferred from one of the larger libraries if you don’t mind waiting a few days.
The FV library also makes a couple concessions to modern times: in what I presume is an effort to draw younger teens into the library and away from their X-​Box 360s, on my last visit I saw an advertisement for the FV library’s own night featuring the video game «Rock Band». Seems a little odd to me – I always imagined video games and libraries as pretty much polar opposites. I guess whatever it takes to get kids in, though.