Wilmette Public Library

what a joy to come to this library with my sons. knowledgable and friendly staff. they’ve even overlooked a few late fines. love this treasure in my community!

Okay suburban library. Good collection – quite extensive – friendly, helpful staff, nicely remodeled in recent years with a great deal of attention paid to incorporating design elements based on how the library originally looked. Easy to navigate and plenty of materials to borrow. Also has nice space to rent at low cost for meetings, presentations, speakers, and such.
My complaint is that it needs more area devoted to quiet study. It’s less noisy than it was in the past, but it still has a way to go when it comes to providing space for those who want to do serious work. It does have a room set aside for quiet study, but this room is small, with chairs facing a wall, and poor lighting. It’s smaller than the teen room (!), and feels like an afterthought…
I have attempted to speak with the library staff about this issue on several occasions, and have found their responsiveness to this issue to vary and to be unreliable. After having a very difficult time working there not long ago, I emailed to the director who replied only after I emailed again, and then who did not reply to suggestions I offered, after careful thought, for improvement.
My sense is that the staff here really do not want to bothered with this issue!
When I need to read or write at length I go to a neighboring library – one suburb over – that has set aside its entire second floor to quiet, while putting its kids’ section, new releases, periodicals, movies and music, etc on the first floor.
Now, that’s good design!

I love this place! The study room is fantastic and the bookstore Books Down Under is one of my favorite places!

What a friendly place!
My wife and I love bringing our son here. We park ourselves down in the children’s section and check out books about a dozen at a time. The staff are always helpful and friendly.
I also enjoy checking out online audio books.
The selection for children’s books and audio books are both great.

I love our Wilmette Library.
Nice people working there, new up-​to-​date books & audiobooks to borrow. What’s not to love?

Fantastic library. They’ve renovated recently and it looks great. I love the new reading area with the fireplace. My kids love it, too. The children’s section is top-​notch. A great place to take kids in the winter to hang out; puzzles, toys, massive stuffed animals, books (obviously), computer games, etc.
They’re often short on the more popular books, but it’s easy to put a hold on whatever you need and they’re very responsive when they obtain your materials. They’ll also pull in a book from a nearby library if they don’t carry what you’re looking for.
A great focal point of the community.

The best community library. The children’s area is huge, and staff beyond helpful.

I’ve walked over to the Wilmette Public Library by myself and have checked out books from there. The librarians are friendly and they show me where certain books are when I can’t find them.
I’ve also gotten books on tape. There’s good audio on the tape and you can also get books on CDs. The Wilmette Library has a lot of quiet places. One time, when I was there by myself, I did my homework there in a place near the lobby. It’s a place where people can study.
They’ve also got an elevator there. On the second floor is the children’s section. And in the children’s section is where some books on tape are. At the front desk where you check out books, the librarians are friendly there. When you check out books, they let you check it out for 3 weeks and then you return it.
This library is a good place to study for tests and listen to books on tape. They’ve got a good studying area and it’s not too loud where you study. The Wilmette Public Library is a fun library to go to.

Very large and spacious library with plenty of study space. Layout is a bit confusing, but overall a decent library. The library could use more sutdy rooms.

Although I cannot get a library card here (not a resident of Wilmette) I do enjoy this library simply because of the large store downstairs, the «Friends of the Wilmette Library.» And it’s not just throwaway paperbacks that nobody wants. Lots of hardcover, some fairly recent items, tons of coffee table books, maps, records, tapes, books on tape, cookbooks, etc., all for a decent price.

I love WPL!!! I grew up going here and I have fond memories of this place. Yes I sound like a big dork but what can I say, I love reading and exploring books.
So WPL went through a major renovation in high school and now it’s huge! They have excellent librarians and they are very helpful.
Their music/​dvd section is pretty good and they are open 7 days a week. What I don’t like is their parking because it’s pretty small and it gets really crowded so sometimes you have to either park on the street or just wait for a spot.
I love WPL

A really wonderful suburban library.
Wi-​fi.
Excellent resources.
Lots of quiet spaces.
Helpful librarians.
A cool used bookstore in the basement.
Great selection of DVDs, Videos and Audio, too!
Sunday hours during the school year.
Easily accessible by Pace bus or Metra.