Edmonton Public Library - Riverbend

Rating through the lens of a mom... Have been bringing my son to the baby lap time and now sing sign classes for toddlers. Friendly staff, small play area for kids but lots to occupy my toddler blocks, Legos, larger foam blocks.

This small library is a real gem. With the brilliant Rowdy Robot program and loads of other fun activities, it's packed with excitement. It doesn't stop there, though - books galore are ready and waiting. The RSVP and checkout systems are a breeze, making it super easy to borrow your next favorite read. I can't wait to see what they have planned for summer. Small but mighty, indeed!

For me it’s perfect place to read books

Very busy location. They have a great kids area with both separate computers and a play area for the kids. There is also numerous computer workstations for everyone else.nnThere is also a great community room for holding neighborhood events and classes. The common areas can get quite loud since it is all open concept.nnThe parking lot is busy too. Watch out for cars criss crossing the lot.

This is unhappy report, but we still put 5 stars for the library. Riverbend library is the most close library to our house, we came here always with pleasure, get warmly welcome and help, and the library organized with expertise, for example we can easily find the reading book for easy read level.nnBut today, we had an unpleasant experience. We arrived the library for returning one X-box game which was our first time to return a game, my husband very care about to do the correct things, so he asked to one librarian, should he return the game separately, because when he borrowed it, he got the CD box first and then got the CD later. All of us think the question was reasonable, but, the librarian keep repeating one sentence “what do you mean separately?” The even rude thing was, my husband cannot finish his words for explaining and was interrupted by”what do you mean separately!”, again and again.nnTo be honest, both of us are not good in English, I think that is our responsibility, and we need improve with our efforts. And I will do.nnHowever we don’t think the behavior for that librarian today was properly, finally, we gave up, due to we can clearly find the librarian without listening.nnWe still love the library.