[3] The building served as the main library for the Springfield Library-Greene County district until 1999.

It underwent major renovations in early 2000 to convert it to a neighborhood branch to reflect the way it looked in the 1930s.

The Edge Community Technology Center in the Midtown Carnegie Branch offers free, instructor-led and tutorial classes in computer and software skills.

The Edge also has a 3-D printer and a Media Lab for audio and video production for the public.

The Library also has dozens of online databases including a language learning system, sign language instruction, business research, newspapers and magazine articles on a variety of topics Daily preschool storytimes focus on the district's signature early literacy program, Racing to Read, at the branches and offsite.