The Gaines Township Branch Library serves 197,416 residents in the City of Grand Rapids, Kent County. The library is part of the Kent District Library, which maintains 865,193 volumes and circulates over 6.8 million items annually. The Gaines Township Branch opened in 1969 and now occupies over 10,000-square-foot library. It provides community meeting rooms, private rooms, teen spaces, an open craft lab, public computers with the Internet and Word processing software, WiFi, print/copy services, storytime, and other library events.