The New Richmond Hill District Public Library, with a collection of 5,000 books, was established in the new Masonic Hall on Yonge Street.

Diamond, Donald Schmitt and Company, and won an Award of Merit in the 1994 Governor General's Medals for Architecture.

In June 1971, a librarian at Richmond Hill Public Library drove to the community of Oak Ridges with a carload of books, which she signed out to residents of the area.

[4] A local man donated land for the construction of a fire station and the community's first permanent library, and on 22 June 1975, the Charles Connor Memorial Branch was opened and named in his honour.

[4] The Oak Ridges Moraine Library, opened in 1990 in a strip mall, was a 6,000-square-foot (560 m2) facility designed by Phillip Carter.

[13] Late fees were suspended in March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, and were eliminated in January 2022, at which time 8,500 outstanding fines were also cancelled.