In 2022, the Malaysian Public Library, Research and Development Centre—er, or MPL for short—relocated to its new home at Wisma HELP after over six decades at Sam Mansion, behind the storied Chinese Assembly Hall. As one of the oldest libraries in Kuala Lumpur, it served as a centre for the Chinese community in the city to access Chinese books and reading materials on arts and culture, history, philosophy, and more. Today, it holds over 60,000 volumes of books in Chinese, plus English and Malay. There are even calligraphy and painting works, plus classical literature, comics, fiction, and Malaysian Chinese works.
Registration fee RM10 for students; RM20 for non-students. Membership fee RM100 annually for adults; RM60 for students, senior citizens and Persons with Disabilities (OKU).