The Auburn Avenue Research
Library on African American Culture and History
The
Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and
History is a Special Library of the Atlanta-Fulton County
Library System. It is the first library of its kind in the
southeast offering specialized reference and archival
collections for the study and research of African cultures. The
library is a public facility with non-circulating collections,
services and programs free and open to the general public.
The nucleus of the Auburn
Avenue Research Library collection was established in 1934 as
the Negro History Collection of Non-Circulating Books.
This unique collection was created by combining a small existing
collection at the first Auburn Avenue Branch, with another small
collection from the Adult Education Project which operated from
1931 to 1934. In 1949 the collection was moved to the West
Hunter Branch, the second branch established to serve Atlanta's
African-American population.