However, in 2004 the name was changed to the "Central Public Library", amid protests from cultural activists who cited Sufia Kamal worthy of the honour.

"[5] However, in 2010 the subsequent Awami League administration again changed the name back to Sufia Kamal National Public Library.

[1] In February 2022, the government announced that the library building would be demolished to make way for a more modern facility.

In the interim, library operations would be shifted to the Institution of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh (IDEB) at Kakrail for a minimum of three years.

Books in the collection are mostly in Bengali and English, as well as other languages including Urdu, Hindi, Arabic and Persian.

The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system with minor modifications is used to organise library materials.