Who We Are

About the Garden Home Community Library

An example of a successful local partnership, the Garden Home Community Library began in 1983 when Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation District took over a closed elementary school and made space available to local volunteers to organize and operate a library. The initial collection was focused on books for preschool children. In July of 1996 Garden Home became the twelfth public library in the Cooperative Library Services. A 2004 expansion doubled the library space to 1,860 square feet.

The Garden Home Community Library is located inside the Garden Home Recreation Center at 7475 SW Oleson Rd. in Portland, Oregon. The Garden Home Community Library provides free services to all residents living in Washington, Multnomah, Clackamas, and Clark county boundaries with services available to all others for a fee.

About Washington County Cooperative Library System

The library system holds over 425,615 materials including over 394,000 books, and 28,000 compact discs, cassette tapes and books on cassette. Over 315 CD-ROMS are also now available for check-out.

In total, over 3 million items were checked out of the system during fiscal year 2004-2005! In addition to these items, thousands of people entered the library to utilize print and electronic reference resources, access the Internet through the Library’s fiber-optic connection, enjoy state-of-the-art Wi-fi service, or attend one of the Library’s many events.

Our friendly and professional staff is eager to serve you. Welcome to the Public Library!