Reviews of Shawnessy Library (Library)

Kieran Wood (Descent)

Not bad I like the set up, and it has most of the books I look for.

Jose Polanco

The staff…. The best!

Moe Toghraei

It is a good place as long as it is not break time for the adjacent school. Students from the school come to the library and consider it as a "food court". It means it will be very noisy (shouting), bunch of romantic(!!) touches etc.

No No Square

Very friendly place with well service, a nice clean and organized area through my eyes.

Oluwabusola Abolarin

Nice place to study. I make use of the silent study area all the time and I really like it. Library employees are very friendly and willing to help.

Petre Ene

Very good place to study. The stuff was friendly and I got access to the internet right away. Despite being a bit busy on a Sunday afternoon the staff was maintaining the level of notice and cleaning at a docent level. Great job.

Dan Morrissey

Great library and staff are excellent

racing gamer

I went here many times and it's fantastic!

Ahmed Bawazir

The staff there are helpful

John Erk

Great library, just wish opening hours were longer

Daniel Alimohd

Incredibly loud, not resembling a library whatsoever. I thought this library would be a great place to get school work done and study. However, the library is laid out very poorly and there are always loud children crying and screaming throughout. Quiet study room is cramped and uncomfortable.. If you want a library to study at, you'll have better luck at Fish Creek CPL. The entire top floor is an open quiet work area.

anonymous astronaut

Warm environment and really nice place to contemplate life

SI M.

The kids at least try to control themselves...I appreciate that a lot. Library has great sunlight. Just ignore the homeless guy hanging out with his bottle (he's quiet too)

Anna Taranova

Best customer service experience in my life

Greg Mooney

It's a good library, simply stated.

Bimbibenny

Great location. Has many materials to be borrowed. However, this one lady was spending 30 min at the colour copier. Was she making copies of a dictionary!? I left the place to go grab lunch and purchase bread at the local Safeway while I was waiting for the colour copier.

Domingo Romero

Excellent location and facilities. Very polite staff.

Maria I RG

The staff are so helpful and polite, they are able to help you with any trouble you could find while you’re using the computer or when you’re trying to print any documents. Free membership and also $5 into your account every month (for printing).I could not ask for more, the place it’s clean and the staff are knowledgeable. Thank you for everything you do!!

Adrian Dayrit

Usually pretty quiet, but there's always quite a bit of selection and new books being added. The DVD and electronic media section is actually pretty diverse as well.

Zanjograce Chakas

Librarians are very friendly and helpful❤️ no doubt about that, they love to help and have passion to work with people. Sometimes I feel stupid to ask questions but they do their best to make sure you are being helped. My kids love to barrow book Thank you guys for your unending help.

Mallorie

I wish this library had an external entrance so you didn’t have to walk through the entire recreation centre to get to it. It’s difficult when you have lots of kids and they see all the activities that you’re not currently participating in. The library itself is really nice and well organized, the children’s section can get quite loud and there seems to be a lot of unsupervised kids, but that’s pretty par for the course when it comes to these library play zones.

Rosemary Orji

Great ambience for study. Very courteous and helpful staff.

Al Zhang

pretty nice library with good selections

Grace O'Neil

It's a nice place to go that's got lots of selection for everybody. Good for just taking a break and relaxing with a book.

herpa derpa

This library is more like a daycare then a library. Children are always running around and screaming. If you want a quiet study area, you have to go into a small closed off room that always smells like body odor because the ventilation in the room is poor. I believe you should only come to this library if your goal is to take out or return books because the conditions are very poor for studying and not to be expected of a library.

CHUCK (CHUCK)

Amazing ????

Wei Hu

It's re opened

James Milner

The selection for non fiction is rather small. It seems this library is mostly focused on fiction, as well as a large kids section.

Melina Neron

Hours are currently 9 to 9 on weekdays, 9 to 5 on Saturday and 12 to 5 on Sunday.

SHAILESH PATEL

Good library good staff give a beautiful advice and information l like so much

Frozen Donut

Great

Mel Preston

Omg...I love this library! They're friendly an have a huge variety of books. I love how big the location is. I have no complaints so far and see you soon.

Abdulrahman Sadik

Very polite staff and friendly environment

Brian McAsey

A great library for the community. My only complaint are whining patrons who seem to think kids are a problem and libraries are meant to be study halls. Some even use Google reviews in a passive aggressive manner. If you want to study without kids go to Mount Royal or U of C. City libraries are meant to be vibrant and family friendly places. That crying baby unnerving you? Perhaps it is a cue to check out a book on sexuality to ensure you don't get one before you are ready to change your views. Don't be a hater and I look forward to seeing you at the library.

David MacDonnell

Good selection of books. It's got a great kids area for families. They host workshops of many kinds and have a quit study room too.

Jesse Corbel

I always have a good time at the library. It's in a family friendly rec centre with food vendors, so you could spend all day there. The library has many self checkout machines and even a self return machine to make your experience nice and easy.

Arslan Verk

I had an amazing experience here! The printers weren’t working today, but Christine A went out of her way to print out some important documents for me. She and the rest of the team are amazing, and they all deserve their recognition!

Jennifer Anaekwe

A very relaxing place to study . Great ambience and staff are also very helpful too .

JayJay- tripz

Got kicked out in 2003 for the clothing i wore

Adam Domenico

Decently safe for coronavirus hand sanitizeris at the front. Some staff talk behind your back and gossip about you while you look for books. Good selection, some good staff and some impolite, not proffesional.

ddoza sweetness

Need more tables for studying, especially when school is back on. Quiet room fills up pretty quick. Otherwise, if you can grab a table or study spot, not bad for a place to do homework.

Easy Cooking 4 Everyone

Good library unfortunately I m not really happy happened a few times I have to paid fine for DVD my son forget to bring back in time. $3 for old dvd I can buy for $1.00 that's a robbery!!

Charles Ng

Good library,

Whitr Pilkk ツ

I had a review of the place in my school.One of the person in the staff reviewed everything

Chad C

No parking ever!!!!

Gemily Lubosan

This place is realy accessible it's near in ctrain station and tim Horton and ymca

Kirsten K

Great selection!

Mark Mazur

Excellent library

Justine Ho

This is a great place I like to go to to read my books. I know that there are sometimes screaming kids, but that only happens once or twice a day. I would advise you to go when there are less people there. Great, friendly staff and I love that we can use the computers and also print stuff! Good place to study if I have nowhere else to go!

Elfphy

The staffs pretty cool B)

Ian Weldon

Pleasant staff lots of books to read or borrow. Ian

Just R.

It's accessible and located conveniently, but oftentimes it is very loud and noisy with the kids running or screaming. I hope the staff can implement a way to actually have an atmosphere of a library.

Anna Z

I just wonder why they put the tables for kids in the library? I had very hard time to keep an attention of my 6 years old off the tablets . We came to read books and play with other kids (that I thought a library is for) but instead he just wanted to play with tables, alone, no interaction with others.

Stephen Dios

Good selection of books. Friendly staff. Decent amount of tables. 1 star off because sound levels aren't really enforced and screaming kids arent uncommon

lynda l

Too much kids running around the library! Too loud. Lots of disrespectful parents taking sides of kids fighting and screaming. Staffs at are useless at this library.

James Lerner

More of a daycare than a library.

Lena Galitsyna

(Translated) It is necessary to open completely and English classes as soon as possible So that people’s depression goes away I am personally glad that I got to the library May God give everyone health and reason (Original) Надо скорее открывать полностью и англ классы Чтоб у людей депрессия прошла Я лично рада что попала в библиотеку Дай Бог всем здоровья и разума

Martha Macario

I don't know where to write my comment to LIBRARY or to YMCA. There should be a sign to the parking area so that people will park properly and unselfish because i always noticed people just take two parking . You have to go to the homedepot to park and walk to the Ymca or Library.

Omid Samadian

Its too loud, like you are sitting in kindergarten ,some mothers are also sitting in early learning area and talking loudly , I think the early learning area should be separated !! You really dont feel you are in library but it seems they consider it as meeting place and thats their policy !!

Vincent Menard

Good selection of books, not too used.

Kat Eleanor

I love this location. There’s lots of parking, but the parking lot can be busy during school, or if there’s hockey happening. There’s a parking lane right out front, for quick access to the outdoor book return. I don’t browse too deeply here, as I can usually find something on the staff-curated shelves at the front. Book holds shelves are organized, and it’s super easy to find the items you’ve requested. The kids’ area is great...for kids. It can get pretty loud if you’re trying to read in the seating area, and there’s kids playing. Use the quiet study room if you need absolute silence. I’ll be back within the week... I’m almost done my books! Support your local library!

Ana Lara

It's a great place with lots of nice books!

Daddy Gunputrao

Having emigrated here from the UK, I was so very impressed with the diversity and quality of public services offered by Calgary Librairies. A truly amazing public resource that should be treasured AND protected for the benefit of all. Conservative Politicians Keep Off!

Tosin Lawal

A great place, with friendly, and helpful staff.

Kc Slater

Super easy to find what you need staff is help full but short hours

David Fisher

Excellently organized for social distancing, remember to wear your mask. Clean well, well organized & the staff are very helpful.