Ottawa Public Library

Finally tired of constantly buying books (thereby needing to store them SOMEwhere!) I’ve been trying out different libraries in the west end of Ottawa and close enough to home. Solution to my storage issues: read ‘em and return ‘em! This location had two very helpful and alert staff on hand to guide me and help me on my visit. This branch has a lot of selection, and is well laid out. I like biographies and seem to be on a big book kick these days. I’ve borrowed a fat tome on Mary Queen of Scots. I will be busy reading for a while…
Did you know that you can borrow a book at any Ottawa Library and return it to any other Ottawa Library outlet? It works! I did this myself for this visit. Very accomodating!
I was pleasantly and eerily surprised by this branch, which seems to have more books than the Stittsville branch. I thought the Stittsville branch looked big but relatively empty, and assumed wrongly that it was relatively new. Apparently that location has been there for some 10 years. This one in Carp is older, in what used to be a storage area for Diefenbunker. THAT was the eerie part! The cold war escape hatch gave me the heebie jeebies on this otherwise sunny day, hiding undiscerned under grass the colour of hay, with cows chomping what they could of it.
Next stop will be the branch on Campeau Road. I do love to read!