The library offers a collection of current, high demand print and non-print items, including books on tape or compact discs, DVDs, as well as access to online electronic information resources, downloadable audiobooks, ebooks and videos, and much more.

Examples are a history of the effort to preserve the springs, The Politics of Hydrotherapy and the Development of a New York State Policy written by local resident and former Saratoga Spa State Park employee Ed Murphy, and the "Frank Sullivan Collection" of books written by humorist Frank Sullivan or inscribed to him by his famous friends.

In 1945 voters approved a proposal to construct a public library, which opened at 320 Broadway at the intersection of, Spring Street in a corner of Congress Park, in 1950.

[2] When this library opened students from the Saratoga Springs school district carried the books down Broadway to their new home.

[4] The Saratoga Springs Public Library is located in downtown, nestled between Henry and Putnam Streets.