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Monday - Thursday : 9:30 a.m.-9:00 p.m.

Friday: 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

Saturday: 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m

The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, the central library of the DC Public Library, opened on August 21, 1972. An extensive study by the firm of Booz, Allen and Hamilton had established the need for a new central library in the downtown business district. The world-famous architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was commissioned to design the structure, and ground was broken at 9th and G streets in July 1968. By action of the Board of Library Trustees in 1971, the new building was named in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.