Hellertown Area Library

I stumbled upon this library by accident due to my daughters taking dance lessons in the basement every week and after a few months it really grew on us enough that even though it’s out of our way we come here now instead of dealing with the more hostel and inept staff of the BAPL.
While it may be a bit of a pain to some, the HAL does not open their outside book drop when the library is open so you always are handing it to a person inside or are putting your material in their inside drop area which is right at the front desk so you know they have the book and there is no mystery as to where it may have vanished.
Also they allow you with ease to renew things over the phone.
More than once we forgot to return something and were not near any options for the Internet but one easy call and the items were promptly renewed without hassle.
Try that with the BAPL. It’s like getting wisdom teeth pulled through your ear.
While the catalog is naturally smaller they have most of what you would want and their magazine choices are quite vast.
HAL is not for everyone due to it’s smaller size but it works for us and we’ll be coming for the foreseeable future.