Suzhou Library, Public library in Suzhou, China.

Suzhou Library opened its current building at 918 Renmin Road in Gusu District on 18 June 2001, on a 16,000 m² site with 25,000 m² of floor space. The north block holds the lending and reading areas, the central block is the Tianxiang Xiaozhu ancient-book pavilion, and the south block is a knowledge plaza ringed by a lecture hall, exhibition rooms, a training centre and a children's library. It has more than 1,200 reading seats.

The library was founded in 1914 as Xuegutang at a college and ranks among China's first public libraries. It reflects how access to education evolved during a period of major transformation.

The library runs the Suzhou Grand Lecture, a public lecture series begun in 2001 covering politics, economics, culture and daily life; by its 1,000th session it had drawn over 200,000 attendees. Since 2008 basic service is free, and readers may enter the reading rooms without a card. The children of migrant workers are served by the "Little Migratory Birds" programme, which won an American Library Association international innovation award in 2018.

The main building at 918 Renmin Road is open daily from 9:00 to 21:00 with no closing day. Entry to reading rooms needs no card or ID, and since 2008 basic services are free. The north block holds lending areas, the central Tianxiang Xiaozhu the ancient-book collection, and the south the lecture hall, exhibition rooms and children's library. A 24-hour self-service library opened in 2014 at 46 Shijiawan, just north of the main block.

The library's "Little Migratory Birds" programme for the children of migrant workers won the American Library Association's Presidential Citation for International Innovation at its 2018 annual conference. Since 2015 a mobile "cultural capsule" — a small, repeatedly dismantled and reassembled space — has carried different reading experiences to outlying districts.