[2] On April 13, 1883, a group of citizens gathered in Skating Rink Hall at Maine and Elm streets to form the Brunswick Library Association.

[3] By December of that year, a room had been located in the Storer Block downtown, $1,200 was in hand, and Mr. Lyman E. Smith, the treasurer of the Library Association, had been hired as the librarian at a weekly salary of $4.

[6] A more significant form of assistance came in 1886, after the State Legislature agreed to allow the Town of Brunswick to grant the library an annual subsidy.

[6] In 1902, having despaired of a local donor, the president of the Library Association, Professor Franklin Robinson, wrote a letter to Andrew Carnegie.

[9] The library was temporarily relocated to the old Brunswick High School in June 1997, and within a few weeks construction and renovation were underway at Pleasant Street.