Current Collection

Located near the elevators of the Central Library, the Current Collection is a browsing area filled with bestsellers, popular fiction and an assortment of new nonfiction titles.

Black Literature Reference Collection

The collection features African American literature.

Fiction Collection

Works include American, British and World novels and short stories that are classical and contemporary, literary and popular, in English and English translation. This collection also includes large print fiction books.

Multi-Lingual Collection

Compiles materials in more than 40 languages and all Dewey classes, with emphasis on fiction and 800s, representing the cultures and essential literatures of the countries in which the languages are spoken. Materials from this collection are distributed to branch libraries on a rotating basis. Also includes instruction in over 80 languages other than English, as well as periodicals in many languages.

Nonfiction Collection

Spans all aspects of language study, poetry, drama, essays, and literary criticism, in English and English translation.

Please note:

• In the Fiction Collection, novels and short story collections by individual authors are arranged alphabetically by the author's last name.
• Short story anthologies by many authors classed in 808.83 are located here, as are Large Print Fiction books.