LaSalle Public Library

Amazing place! This library has so many resources FOR FREE with your library card! I have canceled so many subscriptions since getting my library card a couple months ago! I can now learn a new language, find new recipes, listen to audiobooks, and read mostly any book from my phone just because I have a library card 🤯. On top of all of that the building is absolutely beautiful! They have a large collection of old clocks from the old clock factory in town! It’s absolutely fascinating!! If you need a place to read, study, or just relax I highly recommend coming here!!!

What a wonderful library! I wandered in as a first-time visitor and was greeted by a helpful and knowledgeable team. Donna and Rachel not only invited me to lead a Zoom presentation about my own recently published non-fiction book, they did a top-notch job with the pre-event marketing! Amazing. If you are headed to the Starved Rock area, be sure to visit LaSalle. It was such a gift to have found this excellent public library and observe how its staff celebrates the power that books, language and learning can have in our everyday lives.

Best library of Illinois Valley! When I was a child, I loved the children's library; and now as an adult I love the adult library. They have unlimited computer use, and they also have more books than most small-town libraries. Also, the programs they have for little kids are wonderful. However, the process of getting a library card is a little ridiculous. I had to bend over backwards to get mine, but it was worth it!

You couldn't ask for kinder, more helpful staff to help you use the vast resources of this library. Use computers, check out books, take home DVDs (they have at least a few thousand classics and tv series compilations, documentaries, travel shows etc.), audio-books, plenty of magazines and newspapers available, but that's just the start. They have a fun genealogical room with NewsTrib on microfiche, a children's library area that is second to none, the Westclox clock collection, and they have plenty of entertaining cultural programming. They're always going the extra mile to help me locate something to enrich my travels or teach me something new. The architecture of the place alone is worth a stop (it's a Carnegie library, and the original building and addition were done beautifully, w

After many years of not visiting the library I wanted to start again. The ladies at the desk said I would need to get an updated library card. They handled the process quickly and professionally.