ST . LOUIS PARK COMMUNITY GUIDE 2024
St . Louis Park Library offers an extensive collection
While the Hennepin County Library offers many large facilities in cities near St . Louis Park , the city ’ s homegrown library offers access to the system for residents .
The larger Hennepin County Library serves residents in Minneapolis and its suburbs in the county , which has a population the U . S . Census Bureau estimated at nearly 1.3 million .
St . Louis Park ’ s library became a part of the Hennepin County Library system in 1960 and moved into its current building at 3240 Library Lane in 1968 . The county library system dates to 1922 . The Minneapolis Library system merged with the county library in 2008 to create a more extensive collection and it was renovated in 2014 .
The county system offers more than five million books , CDs and DVDs in 40 languages . Residents may request materials from the system ’ s more than 40 library branches or other branches through the Metropolitan Library Service Agency .
The history of the St . Louis Park Library goes back to 1913 when the Village Council approved an ordinance establishing a library . The library briefly existed in a building on Walker Street before moving the next year to the local high school , which was then located on the present-day site of Central Community Center .
After the St . Louis Park School District sought the space used by the library , it became a Hennepin County Library
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The Friends of the Saint Louis Park Library serves as an independent organization that supports the local branch library by fundraising , book sales , volunteering , promoting the library in the community and supporting activities .
The group is part of the Friends of the Hennepin County Library , which works to purchase books , provide programs for teenagers and children and work on outreach services for all system libraries .
Featured services at the library include adaptive technology , art , computer workstations , language collections and meeting rooms .
The library ’ s telephone number is 612-543-6125 . It is open noon to 5 p . m . Sundays ; 9 a . m . to 5 p . m . Mondays , Fridays and Saturdays ; and noon to 8 p . m . Tuesdays , Wednesdays and Thursdays .
Nearby , Ridgedale Library – which serves as the system ’ s headquarters – is located at 12601 Ridgedale Drive in Minnetonka . Additionally , Southdale Library is located at 7001 York Ave . S . in Edina .
St . Louis Park residents have access to Minneapolis Central Library , 300 Nicollet Mall , in downtown Minneapolis .
For more information on the Hennepin County Library system , including the St . Louis Park Library , visit hclib . org or call 612-543-6125 .