Re: New Fairfax City Library
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Anonymous Coward
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Date: January 27, 2008 09:43PM
I parked on the street, so I don't know about the garage, but the library seemed very open and noisy. The "Virginia Room" which was always quiet and a good place to read or study in the old library, is just the wide-open second floor filled with kids running around.
The shelving seems low and is angled to make little use of the floor space. You can't get yourself lost in the stacks. The new Montgomery County central library in Rockville is the same way, so I guess that's the new style for libraries. There seem to be more space given over to banks of internet PCs.
The old library needed to go, but this new building seems like less of a place for books and more of a place for updating your Myspace profile.
/grumpy old man