It is part of a city-county system with branches in Alsea, Monroe, and Philomath as well as a bookmobile.

[2] Souther advertised in the local newspaper, the Corvallis Gazette the opportunity for subscribers to take advantage of his 730 volumes of "choice reading" for a fee of $5 per year.

[2] Planning for a public library for the town of Corvallis, Oregon began early in the decade of the 1870s.

[3] The present library building was designed by architect Pietro Belluschi in 1932.

[4] In 2008 a history of the Corvallis-Benton County Library written by Thomas C. McClintock was published.