[1] The branch offers the Multnomah County Library catalog of two million books, periodicals and other materials.

In 1996, Multnomah County voters passed a bond measure to renovate and modernize branch libraries in the system.

North Portland Library got seismic retrofitting, a new roof, an elevator, new lighting and furniture and telecommunications equipment, more restrooms, and improvements to plumbing and other infrastructure.

[2] The seismic retrofit resulted from changes to Portland's building codes aimed at making structures less likely to collapse during an earthquake.

It was the first of its kind in Portland, according to a Degenkolb representative quoted in a news article in the Daily Journal of Commerce.