PLANNING YOUR RESEARCH VISIT

Registration- Yale Affiliates
Registration- Visitors
Requesting Material
Additional Information/ Contact Us

Yale Affiliates

All Yale University students and faculty are welcome to study at the Beinecke. If you have not visited the Beinecke before, please take a moment to pre-register using your Net ID at http://aeon-brbl.library.yale.edu/. When you arrive, be sure to bring your Yale ID to compete the registration process. .  

Visitors

Researchers whose work requires use of our collections are welcome to study at the Beinecke. If you have never visited the Beinecke before, please take a moment to pre-register online at http://aeon-brbl.library.yale.edu. When you arrive, please bring two forms of identification with recent photographs and a current address to complete the registration process. Undergraduates not enrolled in Yale College who are interested in manuscripts or archival collections should present a letter of introduction from their academic advisor or college librarian.

Requesting Materials

Beinecke is a non-circulating, closed stack library. Paging is done during business hours. All requests for Beinecke materials must be placed through our online requesting system, Aeon, http://aeon-brbl.library.yale.edu/. Once you have filled out the pre-registration form and logged in, use the "Place Request" link on the left to access the online requset form. We ask that you fill out one form per box of archival material.

Material that is stored within the main Beinecke building will be paged when you arrive. It typically takes twenty minutes to retrieve materials from the stacks. Some Beinecke material is stored off-site and must be requested two days in advance. Collections housed off-site will be identified in Orbis, the Library’s catalog, with the following information “LSF- BEINECKE.”

Permission is required for access to some materials. Certain collections may be closed for processing.  Please consult the Closed Collections Schedule, for a list of closed archival collections.

Additonal Information/ Contact Us

Please consult the reading room rules prior to visiting the library. The reading room is reserved for the use of the library's collections by registered researchers. All library materials must be handled with great care to ensure their safety and preservation. All research areas are accessible to the handicapped. Researchers are encouraged to bring their own laptop computers or they may borrow a laptop from the Public Services Desk. The library's laptops are equipped with wireless technology linking Yale affiliates to the university's computer network.

Researchers are encouraged to acquaint themselves with the library's holdings by reading the Overview of Collections and the Guide to Research Tools. Yale University Library's on-line catalog Orbis, and databases devoted to new acquisitions and manuscripts and archival materials provide descriptions of the library's books and archives. Researchers may use these on-line resources to gather preliminary information needed to identify and locate materials relevant to their work. Curators and public services librarians are available by request for reference consultations.

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is located on the Yale University campus near downtown New Haven, Connecticut. The city hosts a variety of lodging and directions options for local, national, and international researchers.

Questions about visiting the Beinecke and the online requesting of material should be directed to beinecke.access@yale.edu.

Questions related to researching the Beinecke's collections should be directed to beinecke.library@yale.edu.