City of Ryde Library Service - West Ryde Branch Library

They have clean toilets. Lockers. Free wifi. Comfy couches and sitting nooks with plug areas for laptops and all your other gadgets.

And they have books.

Granted, it's a library that doesn't stock Terry Prachett (or maybe there wasn't any on the shelves, let's go with that shall we instead of my poor broken heart!) - and a library without Terry Prachett, to be honest, is no library to ...read more

Who goes to the library these days, anyway?

Mums with kids, that's who. What you gon' do in the middle of the coldest winter Sydney has seen in 14 years and it's two degrees outside and you have two hours to tire out an energetic toddler before nap time?

Yep, so apparently all the mums in the area have the same idea, but it appears that Ryde Council has lured us in, what with the kids and toddler area, the ...read more