Lorton Library

Martin Branham

Brand new building!

Kathleen Bowen Simons

Dropping off our absentee ballots at new community center, so checked out the new library in same building, as well. Beautiful! My library card needed to be reactivated and staff was very professional and helpful. I look forward to going back and spending more time there once everything fully moved in!

Jennifer Coyne

We stopped into the newly opened Lorton Library today. It was a bit smaller than I expected, but it was nicely laid out. Everything was fresh and bright with lots of windows on the library side. There was an assortment of seating options throughout the library, particularly in the kids area. The young kids area is open to the rest of the library, but somewhat separated by a large open doorway. They thoughtfully put a family bathroom right next to the kids books, in addition to the traditional bathrooms right near the entrance to the library. The traditional women's bathroom had three stalls with a toddler safety seat in the larger handicap stall. The door to enter the bathroom has a handicap accessible button to automatically swing the door open. They've decorated the children's area with a fun tree that has seats around the base. There are also windows with wide frames that kids can sit on to view the cars going by. As a parent of young kids, I appreciated the lack of computers with games as some other libraries have done. There were computers near to the kids area, but they were off to the side and not as enticing as the books. Additionally, they created a teen room complete with a door to quiet any noise they might make, books, large screen tvs, and couches. They were still working on some construction aspects in the foyer area when we visited, and at this time we have not checked out the community center side of the building. Outdoors they have both a playground and an adjacent workout area that adults could use (or kids could possibly climb around on). They also thoughtfully included several picnic tables with attached awnings between the two. One of the tables included a shorter bench to be accessible by a wheelchair user.

Ferrari Asante

Thank you for all you do Good customer service