The Brighton District Library is situated in the heart of Brighton. (Click here for library map.) The library building is 23,070 square feet, opened in May of 1996, and is adjacent to a wetlands nature preserve. The library boasts state-of-the-art computer facilities, special equipment for the vision and hearing impaired, reading room, public meeting rooms, children's activity area and "cuddle corner" with easy reading books, and a variety of circulating multi-media material such as audio books (cassette, CDs, and play-a-ways), music, videos and DVDs.

Brighton District Library is a Class V library serving over 39,000 patrons in the city of Brighton and Brighton, Genoa and Green Oak Townships. The library's total collection consists of nearly 104,000 items. The online catalog not only lists titles owned by the Brighton District Library but includes titles owned by 45 other libraries in southeast Michigan. These libraries, part of The Library Network consortium, have reciprocating borrowing privileges with library card holders so that patrons may interlibrary loan items from the collections of many other libraries.

The BDL provides access to the Internet, Microsoft Office 2002, a collection of reference CD-Roms and article databases at all public workstations.