the district tax collector, in a central location of Jessore Town.

In 1942 the library compound was taken over by the Royal Indian Air Force as part of preparations for World War II.

[1][2] In 1960, a professional librarian was hired, a modern cataloguing system was implemented, and the open shelf model was adopted.

[3] In 1978 the Khulna Divisional Development Board build a new Book Bank Hall for the library.

The library has ancient manuscripts written in palm leaves including Shrikrishna Daipayana, the writer of the Hindu epic Mahabharata.