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This article is about a Yale University library. For the audio library, see BASS (audio library).
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Anne T. & Robert M. Bass Library, formerly Cross Campus Library, is Yale University's main library for frequently used materials in the humanities and social sciences, with an especially large literature collection. In addition, Bass contains many reading and studying spaces, a large computer lab, and an area for books held in reserve. The Cross Campus Library was originally built in 1971 in a minimalist-functionalist style and designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes. It extends two-stories beneath Yale's Cross Campus and connects to Sterling Memorial Library via an underground tunnel and the Wright Reading Room. [1]
The library was extensively redesigned during the 2006-2007 academic year by Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge Architects and reopened at midnight on October 19, 2007 as the Bass Library. A new Gothic revival entrance, equipped for disabled access, complements the two buildings it sits between, the north half of Berkeley College and William L. Harkness Hall. The new library includes a cafe, electronic classrooms and group study rooms.[2]
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