The main location is Bennett Martin Public Library in Lincoln's downtown area, which includes three floors and a basement.
Bennett Martin is also home to Lilian H. Polley Music Library and the Jane Pope Geske Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors.
Lincoln City Libraries was evaluated in 2003 by Dubberly Garcia Associates, who performed a customer and non-user survey.
Dubberly Garcia Associates indicated this was the second highest score among twenty-one similarly sized library systems throughout the country.
Lincoln City Libraries does not charge overdue fees for materials designated for youth or children, effective January 2019.
In 1877, the Nebraska State Legislature passed a bill allowing the municipal governments of any community in the state of Nebraska to form a public library system and the Lincoln City Library and Reading Room Association was subsequently incorporated as a city-owned and tax-funded organization the same year.
In 1977, a subsequent addition created two more floors on the library which house the administrative offices and the Jane Pope Geske Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors.