We are an independent municipal library, a department of the City of Takoma Park. We have never been a branch of a larger library system. The Takoma Park Women's Club sponsored a project organizing a library for Takoma Park, Maryland, in 1935. The town council donated $100, and about 200 books were collected to start the Library.

In 1955, the new Takoma Park Maryland Library building at Philadelphia and Maple Avenues was dedicated and opened with about 30,000 volumes. Ruth B. Pratt, one of the founders of the library in 1935, served as librarian for 28 years. In 1963 the Library became a department of the city government,