Smoky Hill Library (Arapahoe Libraries)

Friendly staff, clean facility, amazing selection. Support your local library!!! This one is just amazing.

The people were so helpful and friendly

They have a cafe in here and it always smells so good seriously and they have friendly staff and a great selection of fun things to do and see

I love that they have a tech specialist! They always help me! I just wish the library was more quiet! Like they used to be back in the day!

It's a fun activity

They have a lot of fun and they have the book s for free so you can read them all on their home

If it’s even worth it. Noise pollution is bad and then those special needs groups are an issue. I thought libraries were a fortress of silence not anymore. Don’t even bother with the events there like 3D Printing they refuse to do your request

Nice cafe, study spaces, and is open later ☕️📚

I visited this library at around 4pm to study for a test I had the next day. This is a pretty small library compared to the amount of people that were here. There was very little places to sit and the amount of teenagers making noise was crazy. As a college student who goes to a library to study and does not like to listen to music well doing so this library was had the worst noise level ever. Every seat I moved to there was either a group of teenagers talking as loud as possible, teenagers running and stomping, or a baby screaming and crying. The only good thing about this library was the cafe and it being open so late.

I've done my reading & homework up here. It's a nice place that has only gotten better with the inclusion of a coffee/snack shop.

Great place for knowledge and new friendships. Cafe is great, and we have our garden club meetings there once a month.

A great media center, that has the ability to burn video and music on to, CDs, DVDs, Vinyl records, Cassette tapes, VHS tapes and more! Also has a great community with very loving a helpful staff.

Very helpful staff

This library must do better for children with special needs that are learning to be in groups with their peers. Today, I took a family to Smoky Hill for the first time to teach a mom that libraries are safe, welcoming place for all children and that this would be a great place to bring him to learn how engage with his peers with my support. She was so nervous to come because he will often scream in new places and it can be difficult to predict his behavior. I convinced this mom that the library would be understanding and welcoming. We were ready to expose him to story time and I had three adults to support him. We went into the story time with a 3 to 1 ratio of support. When he got upset because I was trying to redirect him (away from the hundreds of sensory toys that were not available yet) to another area, he started to cry. I was working on helping him calm and the librarian stopped her story and asked us to leave. As we were actively trying to calm and get him redirected. She did not even give him a chance to learn. LIBRARIES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SAFE PLACES FOR ALL KIDS. How he is supposed to learn this skill if not in free, public places for kids? You need to do better. There were so many other things this librarian could have done to be inclusive. She could have allowed him to hold some of many sensory toys she was not giving out yet. She could have changed it up and did an active song in the beginning. This was shocking and not inclusive to a child that was trying and wanted to be there. I have never been so disappointed in a library staff and will never suggest this branch again. You may have a cafe but lack common kindness.

I like the cafe and the large area for the children reading. They have puzzles, a building little train set and a puppet show area.