Halmstad Library, Public library in Halmstad, Sweden.

Halmstad Library stands on the east bank of the Nissan River by Kapsylparken, a glass-clad building whose footprint was drawn around the trees already on the site. Part of the structure rests on pillars in the river. Its 8,065 m² include 5,700 m² open to visitors, with Halmstad Konsthall, a library café, a news room and a story room inside.

The library opened on 22 April 2006, replacing the old city library on Fredsgatan that had opened in 1953. The design by Mette Wienberg and Kim Holst Jensen of Schmidt Hammer Lassen won an architecture competition in which the public voted, and the winning proposal was built. In 2006 the building received the Halmstad building committee's architecture prize.

The library bears the name of its city and serves as a gathering point for people of all ages in the local community. Visitors come here not just to borrow materials but to spend time in the reading and study areas throughout the day.

The entrance floor holds the reception, children's and fiction sections, the story room, the workshop, Halmstad Konsthall and the library café; the upper floor is set aside for study, with non-fiction, local history, genealogy and newspapers. Most loans are handled at four height-adjustable self-service machines, and returns go into a sorting robot beside the reception. Staffed information desks, marked by red furniture, stand in the non-fiction, fiction and children's sections.

The artwork "Another Thinking Bell" by Norwegian artist Olav Christopher Jenssen hangs in the fiction section nearest the Nissan. It measures 450 by 290 cm, consists of 600 glass pieces in a stainless-steel frame and weighs 900 kg; the glass was made at Åfors Glasbruk in Småland and the frame in Berlin.