The Maplewood Library is a publicly funded and managed library serving more than 20,000 residents of the city of Maplewood, part of the Lake Charles metropolitan area in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. It is an affiliate branch of the Calcasieu Parish Public Library, which has a circulation of more than 28,000 items per year, including Pup-up Libraries, and contributes to the general collection and services of the entire county library system, which includes more than 280,000 books and serial volumes, more than 40,000 E-Books, more than 22,000 audio files, and more than 55,000 video files, with a total circulation of more than 1.2 million items per year. In addition to the main library, there are 13 more branches that, combined, receive more than 760,000 visits and have more than 55,000 registered borrowers, whose total items checked out reached almost 950,000. Founded in 1901 and officially opened to the public in 1904, the Calcasieu Parish Public Library started with a collection of 706 volumes. It was also consolidated with the La Charles Public Library with the expansion and renovation of all 13 branches, and one of these branches is the Maplewood Branch.