[1] It is a member of the county-wide Library Information Network of Clackamas County (LINCC) system.

In 1934, Wilbur D. Rowe created a plan to move the library into City Hall, and Dorothy M. Winters was appointed to be the first official librarian.

The building was dedicated on Dec. 16, 1964, and had 11,800 square feet of floor space total.and in 1987 needed to be expanded.

[5] In 2018, a rebuilding project broke ground which called for the demolition of the old library and a new 18,000 square-foot building to replace it.

[7] During the reconstruction, the library operated out a temporary location set up in a TriMet park-and-ride.