The Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library
The Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library opened in November 2008 as part of the the new arts complex consisting of the restored Rudolph Building and the adjoining Jeffrey Loria Center for the History of Art. View floor plans.
Over a decade in the planning, the new Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library facility at Yale University fulfills a unique and treasured vision. Its design and construction achieves two intimately related goals. The Haas Family Arts Library reflects and meets the changing needs of teaching, research and learning in the arts area at Yale, based in large part on the growing impact of technology in all aspects of academic engagement. At the same time, it represents a profound commitment to the unique, material character of the visual and the book arts, through assembling and making accessible some of the most important special collections in the world, alongside a distinguished research library collection and a burgeoning digital presence. In short, we see the new Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library incorporating the best of change and continuity—through the first-ever consolidation of the majority of its collections, staff, and other resources now separated and isolated across the Yale campus.
