Olathe Public Library

Smallish facility, it’s nicely maintained and the librarians are helpful. The collection is not huge, but if you consider the possibilities of inter-​library loans from other JoCo libraries (which is extremely easy online,) then you can get many of the things for which you might be searching. Parking is easy, as is the drive-​up after-​hours book drop at the back of the building. Not a lot in the way of reading nooks with cozy chairs, but if you go online & request your item, it’ll be waiting on a hold shelf near the front desk where you can grab it, check out, and head home to your own cozy nook in record time.

The librarians here are so nice! My boys beg to go the library each week and the staff is always so helpful and friendly in locating books that would match their personalities and reading levels. They have great family programs that engage children in reading. There are other libraries with larger selections, but this is our normal location to stop and pick up books on hold.

This is a small library with a nice selection of materials. Although Olathe has their own libraries, they work with JoCo libraries and if they do not have what you are looking for you can have it transferred from another location in JoCo.
I am more interested in their online collection as I am awful at returning books and have paid for a good portion of the selection in late fees. The online collection is decent and a money saver over buying from other outlets.

I’m basing my review more on the children’s programming than the library itself. Headed here for the first time about a month ago with my two-​year-​old son for a preschool dance party.
As soon as the librarian announced that they were ready to begin, my little guy raced into the room faster than I could blink. For about an hour, they played a bunch of kid-​friendly tunes and also had scarves out for the kids to wave around.
After the program ended, my son played in the kid area for a little while. They had toys and a bunch of puzzles. My only annoyance was that one of the librarians was a bit anal with the kids being around the computers, in the kid area, that weren’t even being used.
Look forward to making the trek out to Olathe more often just so my son can enjoy more of the programming.

This is a secondary location of the Olathe library, so you shouldn’t go expecting a whole that. That being said, for the space it has, it gets the job done quite well. It has a pretty decent selection, some fairly helpful staff, and a decent bank of computers. It could use a few more desks for working/​studying, but I am not sure where they would fit them.
If you go in expecting a massive library with a huge selection, you’ll be disappointed. However, you’ll likely come here because it’s closer to your house than the primary Olathe location… and with that in mind, it’ll work just fine.

Small, but nice. Comfy chairs and large work tables. Very friendly and helpful staff. Relatively quiet considering the amount of traffic coming through and the amount of kiddos. Lots of DVDs. Problem is, the hours are very limited, only open until 5 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, doesn’t open until noon on Saturday and 1 on Sunday. Seems like they need better funding to provide the service that they aspire to.