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Housing approximately 4 million volumes, Sterling Memorial Library is the largest library on the Yale campus and serves as the center of the library system.

About the Library

Overview and Contact Information
Hours
Public Areas and Resources
Sterling Nave (Circulation, Reference, Catalogs) and First Floor Reading Rooms
Stack Directory
Subject Specialists
April 1931 Yale University Library Gazette
An illustrated description of SML when it opened. There is also a brief history.
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Library Locations Map
 

Departments and Collections

Research Services and Collections
Circulation and Privileges
Area Studies Collections and Reading Rooms
African, East Asian, Judaica, Latin American, Near East, Slavic and East European, Southeast Asian
Special Collections and Reading Rooms
American Studies, American Oriental Society, Andrews, Arts of the Book, Babylonian Collection, Map Collection, Manuscripts and Archives, Philosophy. Editorial Projects: Boswell Editions, Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Wing STC Revision Project, Yale Center for Parliamentary History

Complete Library Department and Staff Directory

Research Tools

Orbis and Other Library Catalogs
Databases & Article Searching
Online Journals
Research Guides by Subject
Starting Research

 

Library Services

Ask a Reference Question
Renew Your Books
Recall a Book
Request a Book from Another Yale Library
Request a Book or Article Not at Yale
Request (Page) a Book from the SML Stacks


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