The Oak Grove Library is a centre for research, coordination, methodological support, professional development of librarians, interlibrary loan services, bibliography, local history and information for public libraries in the Kaunas and Marijampolė regions. In this section, library professionals and visitors will find all the useful information they need.
From 1 July 2010 Kaunas County Public Library is owned by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.
29 June 2010 the Order of the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania No ĮV-372 “On the operational territories of county public libraries” established new operational territories for county libraries. The Kaunas County Public Library’s area of operation consists of Kaunas and Marijampolė counties. 13 centralised municipalities provide services to the population in Kaunas region public library systems (8 in Kaunas County, 5 in Marijampolė County), 259 libraries are connected:
- 13 public libraries in municipal centres
- 34 city libraries
- 212 rural libraries
In 2023, public library collections contained 2 300 476 physical items. Their services are used by 1 879 392 users. Libraries issued 2 414 070 physical items of documents. There are 3 690 workstations for user services, of which 1 258 have Internet access.
There are 189 general education school libraries in Kaunas and Marijampolė counties. Of these:
- 178 municipal school libraries
- 5 public school libraries
- 6 non-state (private) school libraries
Users are served in 81 gymnasium, 40 progymnasium, 50 primary and 18 elementary school libraries.
As of 2023, school libraries in Kaunas region had accumulated 1822196 physical items of documents, served 99398 users, had 1004719 visitors and issued 731694 physical items of documents, of which 435043 documents were issued to pupils.