On 19 January 1973, Toa Payoh was selected as the Games Village for the 1973 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games in Singapore, the three storey building in Toa Payoh served as the quarters for the Secretariats and the various sub-committees for the event which was held from 1 to 8 September 1973.

[1] Following the event, the building was later converted, and opened as the Toa Payoh Branch Library on 7 February 1974 by Sha'ari Tadin, Senior Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Culture, in the place of Jek Yuen Thong, the then Minister for Culture.

[4] It then went under major renovation in 1997, before reopening on 9 May 1999 by Wong Kan Seng, Minister for Home Affairs.

It carries the theme of "Treasure Island", which encourages the children to explore and imagine.

This floor is the Teens Zone, where there are fiction books for teenagers, as well as a large space for them to carry out project meetings.