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By 1900 the library had outgrown its housing, and attention was turned to acquiring a larger, more permanent location. Again the Ladies Literary Society helped out by persuading the mining millionaire John Quackenbos Packard to donate land and money for a new location.<ref name=nrhpnom/> The new location was at 15 South State Street in a building that cost $100,000 at the time. The new library opened in 1905 with a new librarian, Joanna Sprague, for whom the Sprague branch is now named. This building would serve as the main branch library until October 1964, when a new library was built at 209 East 500 South.<ref name=libhistory/>
During this library's service, the library system was expanded to include eight branches. The Chapman branch was originally located at 610 West North Temple but moved to 577 South 900 West in 1917 when the city was awarded $25,000 from the [[Carnegie Corporation of New York]] to build a [[Carnegie library]]. The new Chapman branch opened on May 28, 1918. The Sprague branch in the [[Sugar House, Salt Lake City|Sugar House District]] opened in 1914, originally at 1035 East 2100 South, but moved to its present location at 2131 South 1100 East in 1928. In 1935 the [[American Library Association]] dubbed the branch the "Most Beautiful Branch Library in America".<ref name=libhistory/> The Main Branch library on State Street was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1979, and the Sprague Branch was listed in 2003.<ref name="nris">{{cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2009-03-13|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service}}</ref>
==Branch expansion==
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