It eventually moved into the basement of a former high school on College Avenue in Beaver.
In early 1949, an old house on the corner of Insurance and Fourth Streets was leased from the Beaver Area school district for the price of one dollar per year.
The library was officially open to the public on September 17, 1949 with Mrs. W. Wallace Rinehart as its librarian and Miss Jean Sebring as her assistant.
By 1959, the expanding library had outgrown its quarters on Insurance and Fourth, so the Board of Trustees purchased property on River Road and College Avenue to be used for a new building.
This time, 4,200 square feet (390 m2) was added to the library; expanding storage space, increasing the children's library, enhancing the work area, and allowing more computers to be added to suit growing public demand for them.