One person was taken to an area hospital after a car drove into the Wilmette Public Library on Wednesday.

A 56-year-old female Wilmette resident apparently mistook her gas pedal for the brake and smashed through a glass and brick wall on the north side of the building, 1242 Wilmette Ave., at 12:26 p.m., said Wilmette Police Chief Brian King, in an email.

The woman was uninjured, he wrote.

“There is no evidence to suggest that the driver was impaired by alcohol or drugs,” King added.

The car smashed into a staff room where books are organized to be put back on the shelves, said Library Director Ellen Clark. An employee was sitting at a desk, which was moved by the impact of the collision.

She was taken to Evanston Hospital, but was not seriously injured, said Lt. Tony Bucci of the Wilmette Police Department.

The employee was taken to the hospital “just for precautionary reasons,” Clark said. “She wasn’t bleeding. We had to talk her into going, actually.”

She was treated and released Wednesday afternoon, according to a spokeswoman for Evanston Hospital.

No one else was injured, and the amount of damage to the building had not been estimated yet, Clark said.

“We’re going to have to have the brick wall rebuilt, the interior wall repaired and the windows completely repaired,” she said.

Library operations were not impacted by the incident, but the crash was felt throughout the building, according to Clark.

“Staff inside the building all heard it and said it was very loud,” she said. “Our custodian said it was like no sound he’d ever heard before.”

The only service that may be slowed due to the accident will be the re-shelving of books. The library plans to hire a cleaning crew to make sure there’s no broken glass or dust on materials.

“Here I thought this was a quiet day,” Clark said. “I’m just so relieved no one’s hurt.”