Kaunas municipal Vincas Kudirka public library, one of the oldest municipal public libraries in Lithuania, was founded by educator and museum worker Vincas Ruzgas in 1925. The library stock consisted of books donated by intelligentsia of the time. During long years of its existence, the library has repeatedly changed its premises and name. In 1944 the library book stock burned down. The library has operated in the current premises since 1960. In 1988 it regained the original name of Vincas Kudirka.

The library has six functional departments established in 1976, when all municipal public libraries in Kaunas were connected into a single network: The Adult Readers Service Department, The Youth, Art and Music Department, The Chidren's Literature Department, Bibliography and Reference Department, the Methodology Department and Acquisition and Cataloguing Department. The library has thirty branch libraries.

The Adult Readers Serving Department has about 50 thousand documents as well as 175 different newspapers and magazines. The library has a number of documents in English. Part of them is received from libraries in Vestfold County, Norway. There are Periodicals reading-room, Internet reading-room and a small hall, which is used to exibit applied and fine art works of Kaunas artists; also exhibitions are held.

The Youth, Art and Music Department is visited by people interested in art and music literature and sound recordings. The stock contains 23 thousand documents. Literary and musical evenings, meetings with artists, and art or publication exhibitions are held there.

Children can find books for themselves in every branch of the public library; however, The Children's Literature Department is especially popular among junior pupils. The department stores about 20 thousand documents. Schoolchildren are invited to participate in contests, book discussions, and meetings with writers.

In Bibliography and Reference Department, located next to the Adult Readers Serving Department, readers can find various encyclopaedias, reference books and dictionaries. Thanks to the lawyer from California D. Januta and other Lithuainian-Americans, readers can use the Lithuanian Encyclopaedia; those reading in English will find Encyclopaedia Britannica. In addition the department collects information on the history, people, architecture, and nature of Kaunas.

The public library and its branch libraries store about 708 thousand documents. Each year, another 50 thousand documents are added to the stock. Books are ordered and distributed to stocks by The Acquisition and Cataloguing Department. The document stock of the library is beeing registered in Lithuanian Integral Library Information System (LIBIS) since 2001.

The Methodology Department is responsible for run of the library's procedures, qualification and education of librarians as well as lends methodical support.

The library staff numbers 112 employees. The biggest part of them have the right qualifications for a job and systematic refresher course.

Lithuanian librarians' association (further LBA) section at Kaunas municipal Vincas Kudirka public library started its work from 1994.