Tallinn Central Library is a public library that serves all the inhabitants and visitors of Tallinn, Estonia. The library opened its doors to the public on the 27th of October 1907. The first branch library was opened in 1926 and a network of branch libraries started to spread through the city of Tallinn. Today Tallinn Central Library has 17 branch libraries and a mobile library Katarina Jee, which makes the library the biggest public library in Estonia. Tallinn Central Library is open to everyone, offering access to information, knowledge, skills and culture.

We offer and develop library services according to the needs of our users, helping to increase people’s activity in the community, helping them to be informed and enabling them to be worthy members of the society. Our mission is to promote the idea of lifelong learning, to increase joy of reading in all generations, to offer inspiration and experiences, to create opportunities of self-expression and –development and to help people communicate with each other and with the rest of the world.

Our library services include the home lending service (including e-book readers, sports equipment, musical instruments), in-house use (including graphic tablets, innovation lab, robots, the sewing room), e-libraries, reference service, computer use, patron training, home delivery service, literature and culture events etc.

Our patrons only need one unified library card or, alternatively, their Estonian ID-card/residence permit card, in order to use our services in any of our departments or branches.

Tallinn Central Library is very open to cooperation possibilities on a local level and internationally. We have successfully cooperated with NGO-s, schools, universities, kindergartens, museums, embassies, foreign libraries etc. Our international cooperation projects have been most often done with Nordic and Baltic libraries. However, we have ventured further and would like to do so again.