As subject
specialists, librarians in Research Services and
Collections are responsible for selection of all humanities
materials for the Sterling Memorial Library published
in North America, Western Europe, and the former British
Commonwealth.
The vast collections
of the Yale University Library have grown by the steady
labor of hundreds of librarians, faculty members, students,
and private collectors who have donated their life's
work to the University. The sum of these efforts is
the seventh largest collection in the world, unparalleled
in many subjects, among the finest in most. There is
little from the realm of literate communication which
is not represented, and most often well-represented,
in the Yale Library.
Selectors listed in
the Subject
Specialists Directory are responsible for developing
the collections. They do so in part to support current
Yale programs, in part to predict what ideas and information
will become useful to generations of scholars yet to
come, and in part to continue strengths in collections
for which Yale has a responsibility to act as a primary
or principal custodian of human culture.
Every reader can and
should influence the shape of the collections by giving
or sending requests for titles of interest to the selector
most closely associated with the subject at hand. Or,
one can simply submit book purchase recommendations:
Request
a purchase
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