History
The history of Birkenhead Public Library is characterized by four transformations which have occurred at approximately twenty-year intervals since its founding in 1949. Three of these transformations involved new buildings; while the other involved amalgamation into the wider North Shore Libraries system. There has also been an unintended interim period when the library was based at the Leisure Centre.
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