Eugene Public Library, Main public library in Eugene, US

The Eugene Public Library is a municipal library system with three branches: Downtown, Bethel and Sheldon. Its main building at West 10th Avenue and Charnelton Street opened in 2002, is four times larger than the previous one, and sits above an underground parking garage; the structure won first place in the 2003 public architecture awards of the American Institute of Architects of Southwest Oregon.

In 1898 the Fortnightly Club, a group of women, opened a private reading room in a store building downtown. The library became a tax-supported entity in 1904, and in 1906 Oregon's first Carnegie Library opened at Willamette Street and East 11th Avenue. A new building at West 13th Avenue and Olive Street served from 1959 until the move to West 10th Avenue and Charnelton Street in 2002, when the Bethel and Sheldon branches, opened in 2000, were already operating.

The library's name traces to the Fortnightly Club, the women's group that opened a private reading room in a downtown store building in 1898, before the library became tax-supported in 1904. The system now runs three locations: Downtown, Bethel in West Eugene and Sheldon in the Cal Young neighborhood.

The main library stands at West 10th Avenue and Charnelton Street downtown, with an underground parking garage beneath it. Bethel branch serves West Eugene and Sheldon branch the Cal Young neighbourhood; both opened in 2000. The building is four times larger than the one it replaced, so allow time to cross between floors.

The 2009 bequest of $1.1 million came from the estate of Frederick "Doc" Rankin, a Eugene physician and property owner who died in 2004. The current building at West 10th Avenue and Charnelton Street, opened in 2002, won first place in the 2003 public architecture awards of the American Institute of Architects of Southwest Oregon.