Albany Public Library

🏢 Linn Libraries Consortium · Albany, Oregon

Albany Public Library

Albany's public library runs on two sites: the 17,000-sq-ft Main Library at 2450 14th Avenue SE and the beloved downtown Carnegie Library, in continuous use since 1914. Together they anchor the Linn Libraries Consortium, whose shared card borrows across Albany, Lebanon, Sweet Home, Scio, Harrisburg and Linn-Benton Community College.

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📖 About Albany Public Library

The Albany Public Library serves this Willamette Valley city of about 56,000 from two locations. Its roots reach back to 1911, when Andrew Carnegie offered Albany $12,500 to build a free library on the condition the city match it; S.E. and Mrs. Young donated the land at Third Avenue and Ferry Street, and the Downtown Carnegie Library was dedicated on June 26, 1914, after volunteers carried in a 3,200-volume collection led by Mrs. Young herself with a Bible. That Carnegie building has served as a library ever since and today holds a Historic Preservation collection and a lower-level Children's Room. In 1973, aided by a one-acre site and $200,000 from Fred Meyer and the Fred Meyer Foundation matched by an Oregon State Library federal grant, the city built the 17,000-sq-ft Main Library on 14th Avenue SE. In 2012 Albany joined Lebanon and Linn-Benton Community College on a shared Evergreen catalog that grew into the Linn Libraries Consortium, so one card now works across all member libraries.

⭐ What makes this library special

• Two locations: the Main Library on 14th Avenue SE and the historic Downtown Carnegie Library, a library in continuous use since its 1914 dedication
• Member of the Linn Libraries Consortium — one card borrows at Albany, Lebanon, Sweet Home, Scio, Harrisburg and Linn-Benton Community College, with a shared courier and catalog
• The Carnegie branch houses a Historic Preservation book collection and a relocated lower-level Children's Room
• A Library of Things lets cardholders borrow equipment and non-book items alongside the regular collection
• Free notary service, test proctoring, study and meeting rooms, remote printing and homebound delivery

📱 Digital Resources — Free with Your Library Card

Albany cardholders can stream, download and research free through the library's digital collection:

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

📋 This library offers notary services. See what a library notary can do — what to bring, fees and appointments — and find other libraries with a notary notary services by state.

🧰 This library lends a “Library of Things.” See what you can borrow besides books and find other libraries with a Library of Things Library of Things by state.

📚 This library has study rooms. See how library study rooms work — booking, time limits and quiet vs group rooms — and find other libraries with study rooms libraries with study rooms by state.

🖨 This library offers printing, copying & fax. See how library printing, copying, scanning and fax services work — costs and mobile printing — and find other libraries that offer them printing & fax by state.

📅 This library has meeting & community rooms. See how library meeting rooms work — booking, policies and fees — and find other libraries with meeting or community rooms meeting rooms by state.

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✓ Hours & details last verified from official sources in September 2026.