Logan-Hocking County District Library

It’s impossible for me to review Logan’s local library without a little bit of bias; it’s my home town library, the one I’ve been going to since I was a child. We took field trips there in elementary school, and they visited us monthly in their fancy bookmobile. I’ve even built the building from memory in Minecraft, with moderate success… if you ignore how horribly disproportionate it is. I’m incredibly attached to the place, and can always drop by and just browse about the bookshelves when I’m in need of a pick-​me-​up, and at the very least a monthly visit is absolutely necessary to quell the symptoms of withdrawal that result from my rampant, all-​consuming bibliophilia.
Technically it’s a pretty small library. Although significantly bigger after the addition a few years ago, it obviously can’t compare to the libraries you’ll find in bigger cities but I still think it’s a sizable library considering it’s in such a small town, and with the inter-​library loan system a patron actually has quite a number of books at their disposal anyway. As a resident of Logan, I’m more than satisfied to have a library of this size here.
My only complaint is that the science fiction section is almost entirely useless. I read from just about genre besides romance, but unfortunately I have to go elsewhere for science fiction and fantasy because the selection is so poor here. The vast majority of the section is composed of incomplete series, and it seems no matter how big the series is they’ll always be missing just 1 or 2 books. Is it a three-​book series? They’ll have two. A 5-​book series? They’ll have 3. A 7 book series? They’ll have 5. If you look long enough you may find a standalone novel or two, and they actually do have some complete series, but it takes a lot of digging to find anything readable so I just give the whole section a miss. Also, the parking lots have terrible entrances and exits and I always feel like I’m damaging my car driving in and out of them. This, however, isn’t so much a problem with the library as a problem with Logan in general.
Other than that minor complaint, I’m a huge fan of the place. I’m also a member of the Fairfield County system, and even though they technically they are better in just about every way imaginable, I still find myself visiting Logan’s library almost exclusively. Fairfield has a much bigger library, more libraries in their system, and almost every book imaginable can be delivered to any location in the system with their awesome online book request feature, and not even that can’t lure me from this place.
If you are a book lover in Logan and aren’t using this library, you’re really missing out, especially if you haven’t visited in the last few years.