Columbia Heights Public Library

Columbia Heights Public Library Serving the individual and the
community with responsive collections,
innovative programming, professional
staff, and access to resources
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The Columbia Heights Public Library is a city-owned library serving a community of approximately 20,000 people located in the first ring of suburbs north of Minneapolis. The library participates in MELSA (the regional system), in METRONET (through a contract with the Anoka County Library), and in the Statewide Borrowers' Compact. The library is a department of the city, and is governed by a policy-making Library Board. The library is open 47 hours per week.

It's Saturday, let's talk books! Here's what some of our Library Board members are reading right now."Sisters in Hate: A...
05/30/2026

It's Saturday, let's talk books! Here's what some of our Library Board members are reading right now.
"Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism" by Seyward Darby
"Awake in the Floating City" by Susanna Kwan
"We Need New Names" by NoViolet Bulawayo
"Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth" by Daisy Hernández
"Uprooted" by Naomi Novik

We had a visitor at the library today! We have several types of plants that pollinators like, including this milkweed, o...
05/28/2026

We had a visitor at the library today! We have several types of plants that pollinators like, including this milkweed, outside the building. Did you know that monarch caterpillars eat ONLY milkweed and can't survive without it?

Thanks to the Friends of the Library we had a great time painting dishtowels to create beautiful and useful works of art...
05/26/2026

Thanks to the Friends of the Library we had a great time painting dishtowels to create beautiful and useful works of art!

We get a lot of bookmarks that are accidentally returned in books. We'll be featuring lost bookmarks on Saturdays, so ch...
05/23/2026

We get a lot of bookmarks that are accidentally returned in books. We'll be featuring lost bookmarks on Saturdays, so check out our page in case you recognize one!

05/21/2026
Thanks to everyone who came and build such cool things at our Clay City program! And thanks to Now.Make.Art for hosting ...
05/19/2026

Thanks to everyone who came and build such cool things at our Clay City program! And thanks to Now.Make.Art for hosting and providing materials!

It's Saturday, let's talk books! Here's what some of our staff are reading right now!"Yesteryear" by Caro Clair Burke"Bo...
05/16/2026

It's Saturday, let's talk books! Here's what some of our staff are reading right now!

"Yesteryear" by Caro Clair Burke
"Book of Ages" by Jill Lepore
"The Culting of America" by Daniella Mestyanek Young & Amy Reed
"The Nights are Quiet in Tehran: by Shida Bayzar
"London Falling" by Patrick Radden Keefe
"A Great Reckoning" by Louise Penny

Come to the library to see our new plays pace and Asian American & Pacific Island Heritage Month display!
05/12/2026

Come to the library to see our new plays pace and Asian American & Pacific Island Heritage Month display!

Address

3939 Central Avenue NE
Columbia Heights, MN
55421

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 7pm
Tuesday 10am - 7pm
Wednesday 10am - 7pm
Thursday 10am - 7pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm

Telephone

+17637063690

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