Ortega Branch Library, San Francisco CA

A good library until 2: 15 PM. Unfortunately, the elementary school lets out and I guess being quiet in libraries is no longer a rule they keep up nor do these kids care. There's hoards of children screaming and yelling at each other across the entire library. A very messy, chaotic, and loud environment. Tragic and disrespectful.

Lovely library. Not super huge in size but huge selection of all sorts of resources beautifully organized.

Filled with sea blues and contoured lines.
Large collection of Chinese books and Russian, too.

Children's area. Teen Area.
Program area - separate room with tables and chairs.

Outside area where you can see the ocean, read a book outside.

Laptops you can use.

Large windows so there is plenty of light - important in the foggy Sunset.

Next to Giannini Middle School, Sunset Elementary, and very importantly, West Sunset Playground - a large size playground. You can really make a morning or afternoon of library and playground if you are looking for family, kid-friendly activities.

Older Chinese lady is very impatient helping me to print. This incident happened on 7-5-23 around 1: 10 PM. She’s in her 50’s and has a short bob haircut. Hey, us seniors are slow and there’s a lot of clicking verification codes and checking where it is and inputting the code and checking your email to see if the code came in the email. We’re not computer whiz’s, she needs to be cognizant of this. The younger heavy set Chinese lady was a lot more patient (about 30’s and wears a ponytail hairstyle). The older Chinese lady needs to find another job since she doesn’t have the patience to deal with the public, not with the public library, she needs to get a behind the scenes desk job! What kind of employees does the City hire, people who certainly don’t fit the job description, that’s for sure!

Beautiful library with a great layout, huge windows looking out at the Pacific and tons of natural light. Lots of table space and a large book/media collection. Large community room for activities.

Lovely little library, but just a warning, it gets absolutely FLOODED with middle school kids right when they get out of school around 2: 15 or so. I wasn’t expecting this and totally felt driven out of the space by the sudden noise and crowding around at the tables, it was like recess. It’ll be weekends only for me.

This library was recently remodeled, and it’s a pretty clean library with the exception of the washrooms, which could be a little bit dirty.