What a marvelous library! It is beautiful. Staff are terrific! They…read moreoffer special quiet rooms which can be used for ZOOM meetings. I attended an awesome evening presentation there, offered by Greg Barnhisel, speaking about his new cultural biography, "Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power." Published October, by the University of Chicago Press.

I like how quiet it is there, gives me a place to read, do my homework, chill, or sometimes meet up…read morewith my friends!! Librarians are so super nice too, I love their librarian fashion. The DVD sections are fun to browse through too! Lots of oldies. Overall it's awesome.

Granite clocks and…read morebells The Princeton library is simply amazing. Not just impressive or kind of cool but just amazing. Difficult to come up with the proper adjectives to describe this library, especially consider what an itty, bitty little town Princeton is. The library's beginning was in 1884 when the generous and obviously very wealthy Edward Goodnow gave some money to have a library built. Actually Goodnow wanted a building built to be part library and part school. Another school for the kids was built around 1900 so the library took over the entire building. And what a building it is. Made of rose tinted granite and framed by brownstone, the building includes a huge clock tower with a thousand pound bell that still rings out every single hour. The site was selected because it had a great view and the library is indeed an imposing and stunning sight as you enter into the very, small town of Princeton. Once inside it just gets better. An incredible spiral staircase, the only one I have ever seen in a library is just the start. Lovely stained glass, great old pictures and some wonderful antique furniture is scattered about along with great wooden shelves and doors. Had to describe a library this wonderful. What made it even better were the two sweet and friendly librarians that took the time the tell us all about the incredible library that they were so proud of. I don't know if any library can ever be called perfect for everybody. But the stunning library in the tiny town of Princeton is as close to perfect as I've yet seen.

Two lane main street ~ twenty m.p.h. No traffic lights ~…read moreexcept one blinking yellow.  Sidewalks welcome feet.  Waves and hello's from all. A small town,  full of friendly down-to-earth people. It's my hometown where I can leave my doors unlocked at night, and still feel safe and sound.

I called to ask some questions about technology classes for my Uncle and the person on the phone…read morewas so rude and wouldn't let me talk. When I nicely pointed out her rude response, she ignored me and asked to talk to my uncle and proceeded to ask him the same questions i answered already . He had asked me to call because he gets confused. It was just a really unprofessional conversation and she acted like she had no time of day to do her job. If you don't like people, than you're clearly in the wrong profession.

The library is in a nicely renovated historic building. Getting in and out of the parking lot is a…read morelittle tricky if you are not familiar with the area. The collection is very small for a city this size. By comparison Lancaster, which is a town with a couple thousand fewer residents, has more books. Gardner has double the population but probably 6 to 8 times more new books. Masks are optional and are one reason I came, thinking this might be a freedom loving community I would like to move to someday, but it is apparent they don't fund the library the way they should. I could find a library with comparable holdings in a small town without the car thefts and other quality of life issues here. You choose a city because of its amenities and unfortunately Athol is lacking in this regard.