The Baker Branch Library is a publicly funded and managed library serving more than 12,000 residents of the city of Baker, part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area of Louisiana. As an affiliate library of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library (EBRPL), the Baker Branch contributes to the general collection and services of the entire county library system, which includes more than 1.6 million books and serial volumes, more than 53,000 E-Books, more than 62,000 audio files, and more than 127,000 video files, with a total circulation of more than 2.5 million items per year. The Baker Branch was initially a tea room when it first opened in 1941, and after multiple moves up until 2001, it is currently a 17,900-square-foot space. It is just one of the 13 branches, in addition to the main library, a book selling facility, and a mobile library, with more than 2.5 million visitors and more than 300,000 registered borrowers in total. The branch has 78,000 items and a book collection of 100,000 volumes, and it can cater to up to 135 patrons. It also offers free wireless Internet access.