Welcome to Yale! Library offers tours, events, and resources for new students

Yale Library is rolling out the welcome mat for new students with library tours, an academic resource fair, and an opportunity for one student to win their own private study space in Bass Library for a semester.

Come to the fair. The library will host an Academic Resource Fair for Yale College students in the Sterling Memorial Library nave on Aug. 21, 10 a.m. to noon. Students are invited to learn about programs and opportunities offered by Academic Strategies, the Center for Language Study, Fellowships & Funding, Health Professions Advising, the Richard U. Light Fellowship, the Macmillan Center for International & Area Studies, the Office of Career Strategy, the Poorvu Center’s Writing Center & Tutoring Programs, STARS (Science Technology and Research program), the Yale Summer Session, Yale Study Abroad, the Yale in London program—and, of course, Yale Library.

Take a tour. Librarian-led Yale Library Walking Tours are scheduled at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. daily Aug 26 through Aug. 29. These hour-long tours introduce important locations and services in Sterling Memorial Library and Bass Library, the two main libraries on Cross-Campus connected by an underground tunnel. Half-hour tours of the Marx Science and Social Science Library in Kline Tower are held on the first Friday of every month at 2:30 p.m. The Haas Family Arts Library is also offering half-hour tours on Sept. 11, Sept. 19, Oct. 8, and Nov. 5. See the tour schedule.

Enter to win a study space. Class of 2028 Yale College students who visit eight library locations by Aug. 30 (and pick up stamps along the way) will be entered in a drawing to win the key to an individual study space for their personal use throughout first semester.  Program runs through Aug. 30. Learn more.

Photo: Samson Wong ‘27, pictured here with librarian Kelly Blanchat in 2023, won last year’s new-student drawing for an individual study space in Bass. 

—Patricia Carey