The Library has two garden terraces; one on the third floor, the Discovery Garden, and one on the seventh floor, the Secret Garden (this one). There are 10 floors in total.

This is the third floor terrace, the Discovery Garden, which is the larger of the two.

There are seats in the gardens and it is possible to take books out onto the terrace to read.

The Public Library interior showing part of the vast interior space together with parts of two of the rather colourful escalators.

One of the escalators in the Public Library.

The Shakespeare Memorial Room, on the top floor, was designed in 1882 by John Chamberlain for the first Central Library. When the old building was demolished in 1974 Chamberlain's room was dismantled and later fitted into the new concrete shell of the new library. When the current Library was built, it was again moved, to the top floor and houses Britain's most important Shakespeare collection which is one of the two most important Shakespeare collections in the world. The collection contains 43,000 books including rare items such as a copy of the First Folio 1623 and copies of the four earliest Folio editions.