Manurewa – Library

I love the study area here, its my number one place to go to when I need to study away from uni but close enough to get home when I’ve had enough. You get heaps of table room and they’re separated quite well away from the rest of the noise of the library (people walking in, checking out books, etc). If I need a break, I can grab a book or a magazine and have a read without having to re-​locate.
I have great memories of this library as I went through their whole section of teen angst through high school (its a great, highly recommended section too). The book selection here is still great and it’s good to see that younger kids are still borrowing books from their local library. They’ve also got a small video collection (the last time I checked a video out of the library happened when I was going through an Anna Karenina phase) with some classics thrown in there too.
The set-​up of the Manurewa Library is very user friendly and I’ve always found the staff here to be really helpful. They’re also pretty good at keeping up with newly released books, so I’d snap those up quick before its gone for the month! This is a great, friendly, local library with all the resources you need.

My favourite local library. I’ve been going here ever since my formative years, before I could even read anything more complex than The Very Hungry Caterpillar. It is quite large with the standard library fare — a good range of both fiction and non-​fiction books.
It has been revamped quite substantially over the years to make it a little less library-​ish and a little more modern, but it is still good. They have a range of seats and desks scattered throughout that you can sit and read at. The thing I love most about the Manukau Libraries group is the ease of which you can request books, and get them delivered to your local branch with next to no fuss.
Personally, I prefer going here before 2:30 on the weekdays as after this, the place becomes populated with noisy hyperactive kids from across the road, which completely destroys the experience for me (wow, that really makes me sound like a grinch).