The North End Branch's adult fiction collection offers the latest best-sellers, romances, mysteries, classics, large-print fiction, and audiobook CDs. The reference collection includes encyclopedias, specialized dictionaries, atlases and foreign-language dictionaries. The branch maintains a popular non-fiction collection, with books on cooking, health, literature, personal finance and computers. A
small Italian-language collection is also available. Also important is the extensive collection of DVDs and music CDs. The children's collection includes a variety of books and media for all ages including a robust picture book collection, first readers, mysteries, fiction, non-fiction, biographies, reference, and audio CDs and DVDs. The North End Branch maintains a local history collection which is mainly comprised of published monographs. The branch recently acquired the archives of the North End Union as a supplement to this collection,which has been moved to the Rare Books Department. The branch also has a large selection of popular magazines for adults, children and Italian-language readers and maintains subscriptions to several daily newspapers.
