Chattanooga Public Library

{{Short description|Public library in Chattanooga, Tennessee}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox library

| name =

| image = File:Chattanooga Public Library.jpg

| caption = The Chattanooga Public Library

| established = 1905

| num_branches = 5

| location = Chattanooga, Tennessee

| pop_served = 184,086

| director = Will O’Hearn

| dir_since = August 2023

| website = https://www.chattlibrary.org/

|address = 1001 Broad Street

}}

File:OldLibraryChattanooga.jpg, the library's former location]]

The Chattanooga Public Library (est. 1905) of Chattanooga, Tennessee, is a municipal public library overseen by the city government.{{cite web |url=http://www.chattanooga.gov/city-council/city-code |title=City Code: Libraries |publisher=City of Chattanooga |author=City Council |access-date=October 7, 2014 }}{{cite book |title=American Library Annual, 1917-1918 |year=1918 |location=New York |publisher=R.R. Bowker Co. |hdl=2027/mdp.39015013751220?urlappend=%3Bseq=423 |url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015013751220?urlappend=%3Bseq=423 }} As of 1928 it ran the Hamilton County public library.{{citation |title=Rural Libraries |chapter=County Libraries |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PEEZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA40 |series=Farmers' Bulletin |number =1559 |publisher=U.S. Department of Agriculture |year=1928 }} In 2013 it opened a makerspace.{{citation |url=https://www.wired.com/2014/09/makerspace/ |magazine=Wired |date=September 2, 2014 |title=Why Your Library May Soon Have Laser Cutters and 3-D Printers }} The current building on Broad Street used to show signage as the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library, having opened in 1976.

A former building of the library system was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Old Library Building. It was a Carnegie library built in 1904. That building was superseded by one on the corner of McCallie Avenue and Douglas Street, in use until 1976, now Fletcher Hall, housing the Gary W. Rollins College of Business, a part of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.