Yale University Library

Yale University Library

Infobox Library
library_name = Yale University Library
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country = United States
type = Academic library
established =
location = New Haven, Connecticut
num_branches = 22
collection_size =13 million volumes
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pop_served =
budget =
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num_employees = 600 FTEs
website =http://www.library.yale.edu/

Yale University Library is the library system of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. It is the second-largest academic library in the world, with approximately 13 million volumes housed in 22 individual libraries.Fact|date=July 2008 Several of its collections rank among the best anywhere and attract scholars from around the globe.Fact|date=July 2008

The central library, Sterling Memorial Library, contains about four million volumes in the humanities and some social sciences and also houses specialized research collections in area studies. The Beinecke Rare Book Library possesses one of the greatest collections of rare and historical books and manuscripts in existence. Other important libraries include the Lillian Goldman Law Library, with nearly 800,000 volumes, the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, including its noteworthy collection of historical medical works), the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, and the Divinity School Library.

The Yale Library University includes libraries beyond its campus in New Haven, such as the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut, a research library for eighteenth-century studies and the prime source for the study of Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill. Another important collection is the Yale Babylonian Collection.

External links

* [http://www.library.yale.edu/ Official Website of Yale University Library]


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