There are also computers on the second floor, where one can browse the web and check e-mail. This floor offers a specialty department in which local business files, local newspaper clippings, and black studies collections can be found. The newest addition to the library was in 1996 with the third floor, which holds the Language, Literature and Arts Department. You can find an enormous array of print and electronic material on anything to do with the humanities. If you are craving artwork in your humble Ann Arbor abode, you are bound to find something to check out from this department's collection of 270 art prints.
Patrons can actually rent art from the collection.
The basement of the library serves as somewhat of a time capsule, currently displaying an exhibit on local Ann Arbor organizations over the years. Also located there is the book shop, where new and used books are sold every weekend at very discounted prices. All of the proceeds support the library. Circulation clerk Jane Gregory said that the book shop is organized by a group of volunteers and is an excellent and economical way to obtain quality reading material. Most of the books are one dollar, or we'll do a special where you can get a bag of books for four dollars.