Central Library Divisions
Visit the Arts, Media, Music & Sports (AMMS) division for anything and everything you need to know about arts and entertainment.
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The Brooklyn Collection is Brooklyn Public Library's local history division, providing a full range of reference services, educational activities, programs and exhibitions.
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Learn to Read @The Library is an innovative educational program for beginning adult readers and writers, offering resources and instruction through volunteer tutors and technology-assisted learning.
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Get help with your job hunt, find a college, prepare for a test, all at the Education & Job Information Center (EJIC).
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Learn about the culture of America's native peoples, discover the rich history and geography of the great continent of Africa, find out how the world's most prominent leaders achieved success, or investigate the world's myriad religions. It's all possible when you visit the History/Biography/Religion (HBR) division on the second floor of BPL.
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Find literary classics and contemporary and special interest fiction on the first floor at BPL. Available in hardcover and paperback, most materials in this section are circulating.
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The Multilingual Center is a public service division of the Central Library located on the first floor at Grand Army Plaza and houses Brooklyn's first centralized world languages collection including major languages of Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Hebrew and French Creole. Materials of fiction and non-fiction in Arabic, Bengali, Urdu, Japanese, Italian, Polish, Yiddish, Portuguese and Korean are also prominent among more than 30 languages represented in the collection.
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Brooklyn Public Library's Popular Library collection contains the most frequently used resources at Central Library. These consist of our wide collection of periodicals (magazines and newspapers), VHS videos and DVDs, CDs, audiobooks (on CD and cassette tape), newly-released fiction and non-fiction books (including bestsellers), periodicals indexes and microfilms, and our computer terminals where patrons can access both our catalog and the Internet.
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Get information on everything from education to car repair or from technology to cooking in the Society, Sciences, and Technology (SST) division. Popular with students and researchers, the SST division is replete with statistical information and data on current issues.
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The state of the art Youth Services Division of the Central Library offers more than just books. It's an active learning center with innovative programs that have served as models for other libraries throughout the nation. The Division is divided into two primary collections: Children's and Young Adult.
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