Never been here (the Central Library) before. OMG this place is awesome. It's won a crapload of awards, and I can totally see why.
My daughter and I visited one lazy Saturday afternoon to kill some time while waiting on filmmaker mom to do her filmmaker thing elsewhere. Turns out the kiddo is afraid of heights, even though she was riding on my hip and glued to me, but that's the "open space" impact of this place.
They also have a really awesome "map room" with a 3-ft diameter topological globe (I think that's the term) - and kiddo had fun spinning it, running her fingers over up and down the mountain ranges and into the oceans. She also had fun pulling open the drawers to look at the different kinds of maps inside - all kinds of maps. I had no idea there were so many ways to draw the British Isles and bring out details, etc.
Kiddo had fun in the kids section, pulling DVDs off the shelf as a "shopping list" and was really bummed when I explained we don't have an SPL membership. Maybe since there's a branch near my day job office, I should look into it.
(Note the pages I found these images at seem to be broken - Google found me the image, but "visit this page" results in a broken link; go figure.)
