[3][4] Covering 50,000 square feet, the Auburn Avenue Research Library's four-story red-brick and black-granite building houses a library research area containing general reference books and materials, study areas, and a reading room as well as a public section with exhibit cases, general reference materials, and main reading room, and its archive of library stacks in the center of the building on the second and third floors.

[6] In 2001, the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History received a Governor's Award in the Humanities.

[1] "Due to Jim Crow laws, African Americans were denied public library services established in 1902.

Archives holds records related to African American culture and history, primarily in the Atlanta area.

[10] The Library's archives are home to the Andrew J Young Papers, the Atlanta Life Insurance Company Records, and the National Conclave of Grady Graduate Nurses Collection.