Best Library (2015)

Monterey Public Library

625 Pacific St., Monterey

(831) 646-3932, www.monterey.org/library

Their history room is like walking into the Internet on a search of Monterey County happenings. The conference rooms turn into an arena of ideas when they play host to community groups who want to meet there. Their coming “Voices and Images: Monterey Remembers” oral history project is ramping up to record community oral history. The stacks of books, the DVDs, the computer stations, the microfiche, the teen center, the kids corner – it all puts info and fun into the hands of we the citizens of democracy who value access to knowledge.