Wake County Public Library, North Regional Branch

The security guard may take his job too seriously, he works as if he is FBA detective… No talking in the LOBBY, not in the quite room! No phone call, No coffee, No food. I feel like he is either super racist or he hates hard working students
I came to update, the library is clean and stuff is friendly !

Staff is great! Awesome library and nice to see soooo many people enjoying the books, computers, and other resources. The staff has great programs for kids and teens.

If you are simply looking for a place to socialize with your friends or kids then I guess this is it. Silly me thought this would be an excellent place to study and write a grad school paper. I even cam into one of the «quiet» rooms. BIG MISTAKE! Not the least bit quiet in here. There are stacks of kids books right up against the windows and walls of the room. Someone did not think this through!

Book. Books. Books. And magazines. And computers.
I used to come here a lot to study. Not a bad place if you’re used to sounds and what not. But there are way too many kids crying in this place. WiFi is free, but fairly slow and once in a while has issues. Id much rather goto barnes and noble, but that would require a decent drive across town.
The staff is friendly. Although it is a library, they do nothing about loud noise (unless someone is just being obnoxious). Wish it was like a real library, queit.

I really enjoy going to this library. There is plenty of space to study, plus they have several different study rooms, and some quiet rooms too. They have computers set up fro both adults and children. There is always a librarian that is willing to help you if you need.
They WiFi always works when I go.

A very nice library. Wide open an bright, but not too noisy, so you won’t be distracted as you read or work.

Wake County libraries have some good perks like checking out books online for your Kindle, requesting and renewing books online and and otherwise pretty good selection of books. The staff here are also super kind. They also have some good programs that I have not been too but sound like fun events. A good location as well and ample parking.

The North Regional Branch reminds me of libraries I’d see on television as a kid — it’s always packed with all sorts of people, children and families. It has a great community feel, and the staff are very welcoming. There are usually plenty of children and at time the tots do make noise but mine is one of them so I don’t mind. Love the fact that we can check out as many books at a time as we want.

This library is great! My son loves to pick out books to borrow.
This library has books that are appropriate for adults as well as children. The vast majority of the books have several sheets of uniform paper sandwiched between two covers. The covers may be either hardcover with a protective sheath or made of slightly heavier stock paper. A minority of the libraries holdings are on cassette, CD, DVD, or in magazine form.
This library also has banks of computers for internet usage, though truth be told, most patrons appear to be using the internet terminals for Facebook chatting, Flash games, or catching up on the latest Fox News nuttery.
The staff is always very helpful. The building is usually quiet. The library offers a wide range of activities for children, such as Rhyme Time. When my son was younger, he used to love to go to Rhyme Time and listen to the stories and songs while any number of his riled-​up peer ran around with wreckless abandon.
The library also has free wireless access, so you can bring your own laptop for Facebook chatting, Flash games, or Fox News nuttery without any worry that all the public terminals are taken.
I could go on and on about the praises of the North Regional Library. But I’ll constrain myself to one last spectacular feature. The library has about a dozen special-​purpose computer terminals where you can access the library’s catalog. This is an improvement over the Barbaric dark ages of pestilence of my youth where you had to search through the catalog on long banks of index cards stored in wooden bins. It’s so much easier now.
P. S. This library doesn’t smell particularly bad.

These folks were Johnny-​on-​the-​spot when I had to schedule my first proctored MBA exam. I do not like that their scheduling service isn’t online, though… must be done via email. Get with the program, folks… apportion some of my hard-​earned tax dollars and build that functionality — stat! And yes, I also want an app for that.

Fresh off a trip to North Regional, I am compelled to write! I have been many times and I am thoroughly impressed. It’s bright, clean, quiet – everything you could ask for. They almost always have the book I am looking for, and while I consider myself somewhat of a bookworm, if you take some time to look around, there is so much more than just novels! Some titles I’ve recently checked out:
«The Big Book of Easy Suppers»
«The Outliers»
«The Road»
«Living Rich for Less»
«Great Hair»
I love checking the books out myself (fun with bar code scanners!), reserving a book online and picking it up myself (it has my name on it and everything!), and I don’t hate walking by the computer screens and seeing interesting websites being viewed by fellow patrons. (I’m talking to you, Darths and Droids guy!)
Since I always check my books out myself, I can’t say how the librarians are when it comes to helpfulness, friendliness, etc., but they at least appear to be pleasant enough. Oh, and there was the one librarian I gave 25 cents to for my printed pages, she seemed pretty swell.
All in all, an awesome place to while away the hours, hop on the Internet (free Wi-​Fi!), and enjoy some peace and quiet.
«I’ll be quiet.»
«I’ll be peace.»

I love this place, it is so quiet and peaceful. Few seniors, walking around and some moms. Lots of things happening around, look at their notice boards, what a blessing to have. books for free! Can life get any better? :-)
And of course, you can sign up for their alerts, so, never had a single day of late fee. Helpful staff… and during leisure hours, I love to read a few magazines in their lounge section. I wish there was a coffee machine — bummer!

Now, I’ll preface this by saying that I’m not much of a reader — not of books, anyway. I often read magazines and newspapers (or the online versions of them). I’ve never checked out a book from this library, but I’ve been here quite a few times. I like to stop in on my lunch hour armed with my shiny red netbook and knock out all the personal internet business I can’t get done while I’m at work.
Like all the Wake County Libraries, this branch has free Wi-​Fi. There are multiple access points and I am always able to connect right away. The library is large, with a good amount of seating.
Most days, the library is not very busy around lunchtime. There are a handful of people on the computers, a few parents with young children, and various readers roaming the aisles. It’s not as quiet as I’d expect a library to be, but it’s still pretty peaceful for getting work done or perusing your reading material of choice.