The Martin Luther King, Jr. Branch Library serves about 44,787 residents in Alexandria City. The library, a member of the Rapides Parish Library, provides a full range of services offered by the library system and is housed in a building with a meeting room, an interactive children's area, a teens' study area, and computer stations. It offers a storytime program, computer classes, and book clubs in addition to providing patrons access to numerous books, periodicals, and research materials.