The Plainfield Public Library, located in a charming, red-brick building in the downtown district, uses every square inch of space to house a 130,000 book/CD/DVD collection and to offer banks of public computers. In 2009, more than 610,000 items checked out and as many as 55,000 people attended programs and sought information from the reference desk. No age group is ignored when it comes to what the library offers. There are dozen children's programs, book clubs, teen blogs, computer education, job-seeker services and more.