It is supervised by the Taizhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism, and Sports, and is an affiliated unit of the latter.

The public library collection and reading rooms in Taizhou can be traced back to the Republican era.

Subsequently, experts drafted the "Feasibility Study Report on the New Building Project of the Taizhou City Library", and the design phase took place from April 2003 to May 2004.

The investment in this new library amounted to 130 million yuan, with a planned total construction area of over 20,000 square meters.

[12] On November 2, 2013, it was designated as a national first-grade library by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China.

[14] On April 23, 2016, the Jinglong Mansion Hehe Book Bar was put into operation, becoming the first self-service library in China to adopt compatible RFID dual-frequency technology.

[12] In April, it became the Director Unit of the Professional Committee for Collection and Reading Promotion of the Chinese Library Association.

[7] The design of the library was led by Professor Guan Zhaoye from the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University.

[9] In terms of design, the style of each reading room is matched with the types of documents stored.

The children's reading room is located by the staircase in the atrium on the first floor, with a slightly playful style.

The local literature reading room on the fourth floor exudes classical charm.

; providing borrowing and inquiry services of literature and information materials for the people of the whole city; organizing various reading activities, carrying out social education, public welfare training, and disseminating scientific and cultural knowledge; undertaking the collection, sorting, development, and inheritance tasks of local literature in Taizhou; undertaking research on public libraries in the whole city and providing guidance and training for grassroots library businesses, and so on.

Additionally, there are facilities such as the Parent-Child Library, the Regional Literature Reading Room, which collects local literary works in Taizhou, the Local Industry Library, which collects books and series database resources related to local industries in Taizhou, and the 24-Hour Self-Service Library (Hehe Books Bar),[12] which collects general literature and is open 24 hours.

[33] On April 23, 2014, World Book and Copyright Day, the "Taizhou Business News" revealed that despite the local registered population reaching 6 million, the number of library cards issued by Taizhou City Library was only 60,000, with 10,000 of them being "dormant", meaning they had not been used for some time.