In March 1949, the City of Prince George provided space for the library to expand into a former army building at 425 Brunswick Street.

The City of Prince George passed Bylaw 801 to establish the Municipal Public Library on June 20, 1955.

[citation needed] In 1960, City council commissioned a new 6,100 square foot library building, designed by architect Trelle Morrow.

[10] The downtown library remained at 425 Brunswick Street until it moved to the current building in 1981.

It is 2.5 times larger than the previous library space and within ten days of opening, circulation was up by 150%.

Mr. Harkins was a broadcaster, journalist, city councillor, library trustee, and a prominent volunteer in the community.

The Nechako Library was built in 1971 by the Hart Highway community as a centennial project.

In 2014, an elderly gentleman walked into a Prince George library branch and returned a copy of "Camping and Woodcraft: A Handbook for Vacation Campers and for Travelers" that he had borrowed from a Vancouver Island Regional Library branch over 30 years before.