Reviews of Forest Lawn Library (Library)

Easton Reed

Great selection

Bala Gayathri Sekar

I will give full marks for the Library layout and the collections are good.. But the recent experience with one of the staff was worse.. I dont think I will be going there again.. The staffs need more training or they need more staffs who are passionate about the library and willing to properly guide the people and volunteers.

Rotimi Oladoyin

Just picked a book I had on hold.. Good measures have been put in place to ensure social distancing.

Valerie Blackface

Good, I've never encountered any problems there... I always do my business there.

selam Simon

Nice and positive environment, it actually feels home for me. Thank you Forest Lawn Library ❤️

Awais A. Kiyani

Nice library, helping and respectful staff!

A E

Nice layout and building. Friendly staff. Too many noisy people in my opinion. Close to a high school I think as there are teenagers everywhere. Shhhhh. I just want a quiet space to study.

Mark Powers

Great upgrade on the library. Washrooms are clean, seating areas are updated, good selections of books. Kids have a fun little play area. Cool little tot park out front and I think they still have the community gardens. Parking is so so, if baseball games are happening in the area, parking becomes a nightmare. Staff are friendly.

Laura Combden

My family loves this library. We started going to it for the Baby Ryhme Time with Leah, who was fantastic. We have made so many friends through the various programs over the years, and often visit it a couple of times a week. The programs are still very good - although none of the teachers since Leah have really been as engaging and good with the children. Fingers crossed she comes back soon.

Avtar Hundal

Really good environment of library????.

Niyaal Adem

Wonderful staff. They are kind and friendly workers. Thank you the great work team forest lawn library

TxTonya

A very busy library anytime of the day. The Librarians aren't as knowledge on books. One Librarian couldn't even help me with Canadian authors regarding Canadian History for kids. There really isn't a significant focus on reading and books. Printing and DVDs are their main focus. It's not a very big library with a wide range of books. I have to order in most of my books. Staff are helpful but not very personable. They just added a playground too. Kids program run really late past most normal child's bedtime routines.

chris .,

This library turns into a boisterous video arcade of loud kids from a nearby Jr High. Whatever happened to libraries as respectful quiet spaces for study by everyone? Staff seems given up trying,.. almost encouraging the environment degrading. Staff is somewhat helpful albeit slowly,... when not passive/aggressively ignoring people attempting ask for help. To be fair,.. one or two are far more effective than the others.

Debra Wilson

Good, I just find that I cant stay long because the computer chairs make my feet fall asleep. :(

Anna DW

Despite the fact that they have an “Early Learning Center” catered for young children now, staff seem very unhappy with kids being there. They close at 5PM on Sunday and at 4:33pm, an employee quickly walked over to this “Vornado” (in picture), picked out the two bowls, grabbed the flying fabrics as quickly as she could, while a kid was still enjoying it. Then, she YANKED the plug off the wall and quickly walked away, leaving the child looking at the machine with which he was just having fun with. After she put those away in a locker a few meters away, she walked to another kid and the young girl had just finished coloring the princess’ hair. She wanted to color more. Luckily, with two parents staying around, this library employee didn’t take the pencils away from the little girl immediately. Supervisor overheard parents talking and explained that that day they had no extra help (volunteer I guess) so they had to wrap up early. But to yank the plug off like that when someone is right in the middle of it, is just rude. It doesn’t take 27 minutes to yank a plug off a wall, or simply turn the power switch off as it happened on a different day. It was a small area to “tidy up”, and the whole process takes than 5 minutes. I don’t understand why there was such a rush, or she needed to show how much power she had to STOP the kids from having fun. It’s like you are invited to someone’s place to watch your favorite TV show. You are quite happy and are just enjoying it. All of a sudden, the host takes away your chair, your popcorn, and yanks the TV plug off the wall, and tells you that you need to leave IN half an hour. How would you feel? She might as well directly tell you to leave immediately. If the staff really dislike children so much and prefer their work environment being absolutely quiet, maybe they should talk to the central management of putting the Early Learning Center elsewhere. Being hostile at them can not change that kids would always be kids and they do make noises.

Jacqueline Morante Lama

Love my Calgary Public Library! Including their printing services, Libby, etc!

Taylor Zaharchuk

I love the library! My 10 month old had fun looking at books and crawling around. The staff are friendly. The kid area doesn't have many toys/activities right now though :(

Joe Smith

Huge selection friendly staff

sk7052

Really good staff and the books are just awesome

Adil “Solove Myplaynut” Iraliyev

Family size library; it's by a school so that kind of vibes be there, expect a variety of small kids sounds, somewhat busy but always can find a spot, no wait lines, odd characters here and there, no book towers - book shelfs with some interesting book finds, maybe hours could've been extended, just a little bit, and maybe at closing times, the lights could change color: 15 mins to closing time - from white to yellow, 10 min - from yellow to dark with only pathway to exit illuminated. That's it for now.....

Greg

Not pleased with the Sunday hours. the site says open noon to 5pm and my kids just got a ride up there and it isn't open at all,this needs to be corrected.

Suzanne Catrysse

Agreed the staff is very helpful, extremely knowledge and friendly. ????

Brian Chan

Very nice place

Kelley Peterson

Several books to choose from and staff are very friendly

Royce Townsend

Great Library !

Simon Spooner

Lots of free computers to use and few people

Virginia Cullen

Wonderful

Thu Doan

Staff is very helpful..very friendly .

Sukhwinder kaur Minhas

Great quite place to study

Rob Kopp

Im disabled and this is a great little library to go through. The staff is very helpful.

Skeeter Paula

Huge selection and friendly staff

Rosco Williams

Very helpful staff

Samuel T

Huge selection and friendly staff

Khanh Thai

Maija is very helpful and thoughtful with her service. She actively looks for solutions to my issue without me asking. Appreciate her enthusiasm to help.

Syed Bakhri

Huge selection of books and friendly staff

Mark B

I found the staff friendly and helpful

Sandra Stevenson

I love the selection of books here, a nice place to study

Fred Bevyone

Huge selection and friendly staff

Holly Smith

I may be biased because I work here, however I think that this is the best library in Calgary. So much to do, and programs for all walks of life.

Bonnie Fisher

It was great. They followed the co-ved procedures and made me feel safe. The staff was quick and friendly and successfully helped me with the couple things I needed.