Visit and Study
Yale Library welcomes visitors to public spaces at many of our 12 libraries and locations during designated hours. For other spaces and times, access is limited to Yale ID holders. Visitors may sign up for accounts to use or borrow from our general collections. Visiting researchers are welcome to use Yale Library Special Collections with advance registration. Please note: Our hours and access may shift on short notice in response to weather or other circumstances. Check hours on our website before coming to campus. Hours listed in Google are not always accurate.
Visitors should check COVID-19 guidelines before coming to campus.
Sterling Memorial Library
Inside Yale’s central library
Sterling Library is home to unique and beautiful reading rooms, the office of the University Librarian, a seven-story tower with 16 floors of books, several smaller libraries and special collections, and many programs for students and faculty. Opened in 1931, Sterling is a masterpiece of Collegiate Gothic Revival architecture. Visitors are welcome to the cathedral-like nave and exhibition galleries.
Libraries and Locations
Visit Information
Today's Hours
- Bass8:30am - 2am
- Beinecke9am - 4:30pm; Exhibitions open until 7pm
- Classics8:30am - 9pm
- Cushing/Whitney Medical7:30am - 12am
- Divinity8:30am - 10pm
- Gilmore Music8:30am - 12am
- Haas Family Arts8:30am - 11pm
- Lewis Walpole8:30am - 4:45pm
- Lillian Goldman Law8:00am - 8:00pm; 8pm-12am (YLS community only)
- Marx Science and Social Science8:30am - 11pm
- Sterling8:30am - 12am
- Yale Center for British Art
- Film Archive10am - 5pm
- Manuscripts and Archives9am - 4:30pm
