The library was housed in a renaissance style building, paid for from Dr. Andrew Carnegie’s gift of £100,000 to the city. Neilson, Reid and Co donated the site in 1902 and the library opened to the public in 1906.
The Cowlairs Co-operative Society donated £250 for books which meant that ‘many additional works in the departments of engineering and sociology, having a special local interest’ could be bought.
Springburn Museum was housed in the old General Reading Room. Founded by a local committee with an Urban Aid grant in 1986, it mounted displays that reflected all aspects of the life of the community in the present as well as in the past, until its coluser in 2002.
However, a £2m restoration project was completed in May 2005, and the building is now home to the Glasgow North Limited Enterprise, Learning and Conference centre.
A new library and local heritage centre are now housed in an extension to the Leisure centre in Springburn Way.
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