Southwest Branch Library

Great small library with plenty of things for kids to do.

Large selection of books for all ages. The library consists of two stories, with the first with mostly children's/adolescent book, and the second with young adult/adult novels as well as nice study area. Great place with great books :).

This was a wonderful, heavily used library prior to Covid 19. Now that school is out, it needs to
reopen FULL time in order to get our children reading over the summer! The adults in our
community need the library as well! Ordinarily this library would be full of people of all ages
every day, and yet now it is open only Monday and Tuesday for a few hours. This is such
a vital library serving such a wide area of town — it should be open full time.

It is essential to reopen it now!

It's not a big library, but I was there for the Friends of the Kern County Library book sale. The book sale was in the corner with prices ranging $0.50-$3.00. The clerks in the book check-out counter are friendly and helpful. I enjoyed my time in this library. I wish Bakersfield had more libraries like this!

Favorite library of ours, my granddaughter really enjoyed toddler time yesterday and preschool storytime today. Two pirates stories today and then they all made craft parrots for their shoulders. So much fun!!

Small location, but it seriously has a ton of great books! It's very quiet inside and is an awesome place to get work done. The staff is always helpful and kind. Bakersfield needs more libraries like this.

Love coming here and using there pods for study groups, they are very nice there. Could have a bigger selection for Teen Fiction, but other then that its very family friendly.

It is so nice i their ,their is kids section where all the fantady books and stuff are.There is a Adults section and a youg adult readers section.So know you know their is not just space for kids to read stuff. I totaly would recommend to bring your kid or yourselfs and make a account and you can get the libary card with your info in it for free.It awesome and if you do go i hope you experinre a good time.
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Great place for kids to go for free activities and books.

Super fun library with a coloring station, busy board, and a ton of kids books! Lego club and furry story time is a must!!

Super clean , friendly staff and a great place for kids to play , read and do activities!

This is a amazing library my kids love the books and they always want to go there and i also love there books.

Friendly staff. They kept an item on hold for one extra day. Thank you :D

Very good library with good collection of books. The staff are very helpful and friendly. We love this library.

Everyone here is quite friendly and ready to help. The selection of books and services are quite vast.

Nice clean library with a good selection tuon of books.

Friendly and helpful staff. Was able to find exactly what i needed.

Fantastic library, a book lover's dream. One of my favorite places.

Very kind librarians. It's a clean building too.

Wonderful story time with Wendy!