Key Largo Library

The Key Largo Library sits at 101485 Overseas Highway and is one of the Monroe County Public Library system’s five branches, serving the Upper Keys.

For anyone passing through it is a genuinely useful free stop. There is public Wi-Fi and there are public computers, along with mobile printing and a holds locker that stays accessible around the clock so a reserved item can be collected outside opening hours. A library card also unlocks free access to the New York Times, Ancestry and FamilySearch, which is worth a detour for anyone tracing Keys family history. The branch handles interlibrary loans, lends Book Club in a Bag sets for reading groups, offers visitor services, and has meeting rooms available to book.

The best reason to plan around it is the First Friday Concert Series, which brings a live performance to the branch on the first Friday of each month from October through April, from 6 to 7 p.m. It is free and open to anyone, and the Friends of the Key Largo Library pay for it.

The Friends also keep a book sale going inside the branch, offering gently used hardbacks and paperbacks on a pay-what-you-like donation basis, along with a small selection of greeting cards. Proceeds go back into the branch’s programming, including those concerts.

The library is open six days a week with a later evening on Wednesday and is closed Sundays.