Pawtucket Public Library

Love this library only thing is that I wish there’s a way that u guys can give away paper bus passes

Best library ever, great community space and a great offering of so many things (books, entertainment, clubs, teen spaces etc)!

cant believe it took me so long to come here. this was my first time visiting. nice staff, quiet as expected for a library. i didnt expect it to look like a school setting with rooms. i know its a free place but many homeless people go there to relax. going into the fiction room and it was filled with possibly homeless men, maybe not all made me uncomfortable because i dont fit that demographic so i didnt want to spend time in there. they are harmless but being the only girl in there i could feel the possible stares and awkwardness haha. the staircase going to the nonfiction section stank like odor and some man was sleeping on a chair snoring. the nonfiction area had a much better atmosphere but i am shy so i didnt stick too long because there were many people in there and i looked liked

The one star is for I guess the outside of the historic building? Was checking out the YMCA for future planning of groups. When my daughters and I walked outside we noticed the beautiful building across the street! Then realizing it was a library, we got so excited to see the inside! Yeaaaaaa that excitement quickly died. You walk in and it’s dinghy, confusing to find where you’re supposed to go? Sections? So I take a risk & take a right. Blegh.. bad decision. I mean.. maybe the entire library is like this..? Full of homeless people sleeping, nodding out with bags of cans and the smell of BO & cigarettes. It’s a beautiful 70° & sunny day outside (April 17th 2025) I was genuinely flabbergasted that that kind of loitering was allowed? My kids got very close to me and were genuinely so confu

Love that magic show today thanks. Kids had much fun