Picking my favorite library is like picking my favorite child.

The downtown Montgomery Alabama Library with its four large rooms, one for children, one for non-fiction one for fiction and one a grand reading room with daily papers from all over on wooden sticks hung in racks, and in between the 4 main rooms were 3 floors of special material from newspapers for the past 100 or so years, micro fiche docs from everything, to some books that were a bit to controversial to be on the main floors and the spiral hanging staircase that led to a wonderful museum, but in the evening the museum closed before the library closed. My brother and I would go to the top step and sit and read while we waited on our parents.

The little libraries in Brewton Alabama and McRae Georgia, nothing fancy, but stocked with fun reads and wonderful literary novels. Same goes for the small town library in Earle, Arkansas where every afternoon we would ride our bikes across town to the public pool, stopping on the way back to drop off the 3-4 books we had read the day before and pick up some more.

The West Palm Beach Library in its old semi subterranean structure (sadly, later torn down to make a great water park, and rebuilt a couple of blocks away, a massive shiny 4 story building with not near as much soul.) besides a great collection of books, it has possibly one of the largest vinyl and CD collections anywhere.

The Palm Beach County library with its massive collections of wonderful books of all sorts, as well as a large section of large print, books on tape, books on CD videos and music.

The Lake Worth Library with its fantastical interior a dusty cracker feeling front room for the adult section and courtyards and staircases and a beautiful brightly lit backroom for the childrens section.

The tiny library in Pahokee, books, internet, air conditioning, and clean restrooms, all of which, in Pahokee made it pretty special. I love the lake region and its people, but a bit of cosmopolitan civilization is a nice respite from the beautiful black dirt and the thousands of acres of sugarcane.

The extremely active small library in Carrabelle Florida. To be honest, I haven’t wandered around much because every time I go they invite me to read my poetry and talk about writing!

The Martin County (FL) main branch where they were always having book events, including the amazing Bookmania! Sadly, i was at the first one and after 25 years they discontinued it, but i am sure they will be doing other great activities for both readers and writers.

I cannot leave out the tiny upstairs library at Kelly Writers house on the open campus of the university of Pennsylvania (yes, you can walk right into KWH, go to the kitchen, pour yourself coffee or tea, eat a bite of whatever anyone is cooking, wander about and sit for a spell in the library and pull down some great book of poetry [even one of mine])

There are other libraries, but the list is long.