Oakville Public Library

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Oakville Public Library is the public library system for the Town of Oakville, Ontario, Canada. It has five branches.

The Oakville Public Library is where people and ideas meet.

EVERY HOUR… 6 new items are added to the library’s collection. 17 people attend a program run by the library. 77 questions are answered by our librarians. 139 Information Oakville community database records are accessed. 485 people visit a library branch. 685 books, magazines, DVDs, and CDs, are checked out of the library. 987 people use the library's website.

FOR CHILDREN IN OAKVILLE… We provide over 38,000 children’s programming spots per year to help develop a love of learning.

FOR EVERY PERSON IN OAKVILLE… We perform over 80 transactions a year, be it through our website, in one of our branches, or through one of our other community service delivery points.

In 1827, Oakville’s first library was established when William Tassie, the town’s first schoolmaster, opened a reading room in the meeting hall located on the site of the current central library. The first use of the name “Oakville Public Library” occurred in 1895. Between the 1860s and the 1960s, the library moved to four other locations in town, only to return to the Navy Street site in 1967 with the opening of the new Centennial complex housing the library and art gallery.