Shreve Memorial Library

I take my child here biweekly to check out books. The staff is helpful & the technology allows you to conveniently check out books expeditiously!

This location is much better than the location it replaced years ago. The old location was very small.
There is a good selection of books, including a sizeable children’s section.
There are computers that can be used for free and free wifi. There’s also a couple of conference rooms that I assume can be rented out for business meetings. One of these rooms is where the locals also go to vote.
There are audio books, audio cd’s, DVD’s, and Blu-​ray ’ s that can be rented also. Unfortunately, many of the movie titles are damaged and do not play correctly and no matter how many times I’ve told them something is damaged they just put it right back on the shelf.
I really wish they would take more ownership of the movie section. If they had a book returned that was defaced with pages torn out I’d like to think they wouldn’t put it back on the shelf. Maybe they would I don’t know. When you have movie discs that are visibly cracked and obviously won’t play why do you keep putting them back on the shelf for rent? If you care that little for your work you need to find something else to do.
This location isn’t the safest. There is now an armed guard presence.

For no other reason than it’s on my way to work I stop in at this branch and use their computers, and they are mostly good and available to me. If you are here around the time school lets out, the children flood the floors and probably talk loud, but I try to be long gone by then.
Most of the other patrons are a gang of crippled and broken mutants. It’s as if a railroad car full of mental patients derailed just outside, and the few survivors who didn’t drown in the swamp managed to claw their way from the wreckage and find a home here, in the first available shelter. But then, I too, am here, which begs the question: am I one of them?
«The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.»