Hennepin County Library – Golden Valley Library

Awesome cozy neighborhood library, part of the Hennepin County Library system. The staff is friendly, and very helpful.

This a great smaller location of the Hennepin County Library system. It’s in walking distance from home and has wonderful computer access. The system has a great selection even if you have to have it sent over from another location. The staff have always been friendly and helpful.

This library is pretty small, but it is very quiet because most of the people that come here are neighborhood seniors. There is almost always a computer available… (didn’t I just say most of the visitors were seniors) and the desk staff is very helpful and friendly. They have a computer assistant there most all the time, so if you can’t figure something out online or on Word, they will help you out.

This is a great small neighborhood library. The staff is friendly, helpful and always circulating so they are available.
I especially like the kids area, with the books kid level for little hands to pick out their own books. They also have toys and kids computers to occupy my son while I gather books. There is a rocking chair in this area too that I find nice and cozy if my son just can’t wait to get home to read a book.
It is a small library, so they don’t always have the book that I am looking for, but the online reservation makes it super easy to reserve the book and pick it up from their hold section.

My normal library is on break from story time, so I logged on to the awesome Hennepin County library website and decided to check out the story hour at GV. Its a nice building with a good side parking lot. By the number of books in the reserved section, I’d say this is a well used library.
Story hour is in the activity room which is nice bc there’s plenty of room. Librarian Mary did a great job picking a theme with good books and some activities for the kids. I was especially pleased that the music she played was not purely for kids! I prefer the Beatles to Raffi anyway. No offense to Raffi.
Where the story hour was a failure however, was crowd control. I can’t believe how many parents and grandparents let their kids go wild! And the librarian only asked the kids to sit down once. Its pretty distracting to have kids standing right in front of the book, especially when they are old enough to know better (At least 5 or 6 years old!)
Another big plus is the huge assortment of lunch options just a few blocks south.

Great place to go. You can sit and read a book, check out a cd or dvd. They have open computers you can surf the web for free. Very kids friendly with lots of kids stuff and books. You can request books or movies online and pick them up for free. Auto checkout for quick books on the go. Its a great library with a very friendly staff.