Public Library

We finally got ourselves signed up for the Berlin Public Library.  I miss our Seattle Public Library while here even though I still get most of my books through the digital download program.  I miss our location branch and walking back to the hold area to find treasures of books there and checking them out.  I miss the friendly or not so friendly librarians that we had become very familiar with during our years as West Seattle library patrons. 
We had heard about a large library atop the big shopping mall in Steglitz.  We go here frequently for Indian food, our favorite falafel shop is nearby as is the sporting store that sells everything from bike helmets to soccer shoes to winter gloves and hiking boots.  It is like a cheaper version of REI... actually it just has every outdoor type thing but at ALL different price points instead of the REI where everything is expensive.  So we biked to the shopping mall (about 8km and 25 minute bike ride away) and headed to the top floor to check out the new to us library.  We were all so excited to get our own cards and browse the shelves.
They have a small English section for kids and a small English section for Adults.  They have mostly just big named, mainstream authors with no super recent books but still we all found something we liked.  Benjamin was elated to find that he could check out video games for his xbox and Josie, as always, chose about 8 books and will likely read 4.  She can never narrow it down but I'd rather that than her not find anything she liked.
We left happy and full of books and knew we would be back soon.  It is a very nice library but pales in comparison to the awesome Seattle public library system.