This was Scotland's second Carnegie library, completed just two months before America's first Carnegie library opened in Braddock, Pennsylvania on 30th March 1889. The competition to design the building took place in 1888, following a visit to the town by the newly married Mr and Mrs Carnegie in the summer of 1887. Mrs Carnegie informed the town council that her husband would provide the finance for the library, as he had done a few years earlier in nearby Dunfermline. The library's title came from Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, which had occurred on 20th June 1887, around the time of the Carnegies' honeymoon visit to Scotland. The library is housed in a two storey neo-classical building designed by Andrew Black of Falkirk. It is constructed with locally quarried cream sandstone. Corinthian columns flank the arched windows over the doorways, and the composition is topped with a fine stone balustrade. It was designed in a universally popular style, which would readily fit in with the municipal buildings erected in the great cities on either side of Atlantic in the same era. The library was opened on 31st January 1889 by Mr. T.D. Brodie Its current use remains as a branch library, with the upper floor as a museum