Visit and Study
Visitors without Yale affiliation may sign up for borrowing privileges and register to access special collections in the designated reading rooms.
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
- Bass12pm - 2am
- Beinecke12 p.m. - 5 p.m. Exhibitions only
- Classics5pm - 9pm
- Cushing/Whitney Medical10am - 12am
- Divinity2pm - 10pm
- Gilmore Music12pm - 12am
- Haas Family Arts2pm - 11pm
- Lewis WalpoleClosed
- Lillian Goldman LawYLS Community Only (weekends): 8:00am - 8:00pm
- Marx Science and Social Science1pm - 11pm
- Sterling12pm - 12am
- Yale Center for British ArtClosed
- Film Archive2pm - 9pm
- Manuscripts and ArchivesClosed
