Palatine Public Library at 700 North North Court, Palatine, Illinois.

The Palatine staff that work behind the front desk by the entrance are very rude and disrespectful.JFC.

The gold standard of a library. Their summer reading program is incredibly popular, they have book clubs and workshops for all ages, they're always selling used books, they get new DVDs and movie soundtracks right when they come out, and their new self-checkout is super efficient. I've always loved going here!

Library is fine, if you want to use a reference book and then leave. If you need a quiet place to study, you may not find it there. It has a Quiet Study Room upstairs that I used on weekends when my school library was closed, but people seemed to not realize that it's just that -- a "quiet" study room. Patrons had full fledged conversations in there, either on their cell phones or with each other. And it's not like there's a Quiet Study Room police to ask them politely to step outside, so I dealt with it when I couldn't find any other place to study.