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The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University holds some of the world’s greatest literary treasures and much, much more.
Beinecke Library Renovation
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, one of the world's largest buildings devoted entirely to rare books and manuscripts, will begin a major renovation following Yale University's commencement ceremonies in May 2015. The renovation will prepare the Beinecke for another 50 years as a world-class center of research and learning. Learn more about the project and how to access collection materials while work is under way.
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Making the Medieval English Manuscript: The Takamiya Collection in the Beinecke Library
On view through December 10, 2017; Beinecke Library exhibitions are free and open to the public daily.
The most impressive collection of medieval English manuscripts that had been in private hands is on exhibition for the first time in the United States at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Four unique Chaucer manuscripts, numerous devotional rolls, and works as varied as Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, Langland’s Piers the Plowman and a Middle English medical manuscript—all from the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, a generous scholar and collector — will be shown in the context of the Beinecke Library’s own rich holdings of English and Continental manuscripts.
With a rare combination of scholarly and antiquarian expertise, Professor Emeritus Takamiya of Keio University in Tokyo assembled an unrivaled collection of medieval manuscripts over four decades. Held privately in Japan, the collection had been relatively unstudied in the West, and Professor Takamiya’s generous deposit of these manuscripts at the Beinecke Library in 2013 made a significant contribution to medieval scholarship at Yale University and internationally.
The fall 2017 exhibition celebrates and showcases these medieval manuscripts, now permanently part of the Beinecke collections, and demonstrates how they combine with the library’s existing holdings to make the Beinecke Library a vital center for scholars, students, and the public to engage medieval English literature, history, and manuscript culture.
This exhibition is curated by Raymond Clemens, Diane Ducharme, Eric Ensley, Gina Hurley, Alexandra Reider, Joseph Stadolnik, and Emily Ulrich.
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The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library inspires engagement with the past, in the present, for the future. One of the world’s largest libraries devoted entirely to rare books and manuscripts, it is Yale University’s principal repository of literary archives, early manuscripts, and rare books.
Designed by Gordon Bunshaft of the architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the Beinecke Library opened in October 1963, after three years of construction. The library was the gift of three Yale alumni—Edwin J. Beinecke, 1907; Frederick W. Beinecke, 1909S; Walter Beinecke, 1910—and their families. As noted by words that greet visitors entering the library, they gave it to “stand as a symbol of the loyalty and devotion of three brothers and serve as a source of learning and as an inspiration to all who enter.”
The innovative design includes a six-story glass-enclosed tower of book stacks, holding approximately 180,000 volumes, inside a cube with large “windows” made of translucent Vermont marble panels, an inch and a quarter thick, in a granite frame. The exterior framework gestures to the golden ratio: Fifteen marble blocks run across the face of the building, five run vertically, and ten run along its depth, representing the ratio of 3:1:2. This is also a nod to the collections, as the pages of many early books and manuscripts are laid out in this proportion, considered pleasing to the eye and reverential to the text. The marble panels protect the collections from damaging direct sunlight while absorbing and reflecting the exterior light in warm hues on the interior.
The research level and most of the stacks are on two underground floors that extend beneath the plaza. Additional material from collections is housed in the university’s Library Shelving Facility. The courtyard adjacent to the reading room features a sculpture garden by Isamu Noguchi in an assemblage with representations of the earth (pyramid), sun (circle), and chance (cube). The sculptor wrote of it that “it is nowhere, yet somehow familiar. Its size is fictive, of infinite space or cloistered containment.”
The Bunshaft building underwent a comprehensive renovation in 2015–16, including conservation and restoration of its historic architecture and sculpture court and the complete replacement of HVAC, electrical, fire detection, and other mechanical systems. As part of the project the library doubled the number of classrooms used for teaching. In 2015 the library’s Technical Services department—cataloguing, archival description, acquisitions, accessioning, and digitization work—was able to consolidate its operations in a state-of-the-art facility at 344 Winchester Avenue in space shared with the Yale University Library Preservation Department.
The Beinecke Library continues to fulfill its original purpose as a center for research and scholarship, with researchers visiting from around the world, and as a vital center for teaching, with hundreds of Yale classroom sessions each year.
The library is a source of inspiration for the public, with more than 175,000 visitors coming every year from New Haven, around the nation, and beyond to see the building and its permanent and special exhibitions and to attend concerts, readings, and conferences. Through its vast digital library and through books and essays published from research, the Beinecke Library reaches millions of readers online and in print publications.
The Beinecke Library is home to the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, awarded biannually, and to the Windham-Campbell Prizes for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama, awarded annually. Each September, the library celebrates the Windham-Campbell prizewinners with a multiday literary festival on campus, free and open to the public.
The library now holds more than one million books, many millions of manuscript pages, and tens of thousands of papyri, photographs, maps, posters, paintings, and art objects, as well as extensive audiovisual material and born-digital content. Collections range from ancient Egyptian fragments on papyrus through works by living authors. Major collections include Early Books and Manuscripts (pre-1500), Early Modern (1500 to 1800), Modern (post-1800), American Literature, Western Americana, German Literature, the Osborn Collection of English literary and historical manuscripts, the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters, and the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children’s Literature....
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Yale Public Tours, New Haven, Connecticut, USA - Unravel Travel TV
Fly from Dublin to Hartfotd with Aer Lingus and explore Connecticut, USA. Yale College students provide a glimpse into the history and architecture of the University. The tours start at the Yale Visitor Center at 149 Elm Street New Haven, CT 06511. Hear about Yale’s rich 300-year history and aspects of student life at several of Yale’s twelve residential colleges. The tour also includes the Gothic Sterling Memorial Library, Yale’s largest, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Constructed with more than one hundred panels of translucent marble, the Beinecke is home to one of the world’s preeminent collections of rare materials, including the Gutenberg Bible.
Tours depart from the Visitor Center (149 Elm Street), cover the central campus area, and last between 1 hour and hour and 15 minutes. Groups of 10 or more visiting the campus are required to schedule a private tour (see below). A video about campus life is offered 15 minutes before each of these scheduled tours. Please note that the Visitor Center does not offer information sessions. Information sessions are held at the Undergraduate Admissions Office.
Guided Tours
Mon–Fri: 10:30am & 2pm
Sat–Sunday: 1:30pm
Student Tours for Prospective Undergraduates
Please note that the Visitor Center provides campus tours that are geared toward a broad audience of visitors. Undergraduate Admissions also provides separate tours. If you are a prospective undergraduate student you should consider attending an Undergraduate Admissions tour at Yale Admissions if possible. Tours for prospective undergraduates depart from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions located at 38 Hillhouse Avenue. Check the Admissions website for the prospective undergraduate tour schedule.
Self-Guided Tour
Visitors who would rather tour the campus on their own may purchase a copy of the Blue Trail map, which includes a suggested self-guided tour route, and a brief history of the University.
MP3 Tour
Using their portable MP3 players, visitors may listen to pre-recorded audio tracks on a self-guided MP3 tour throughout campus.
Special Groups by Appointment
Groups of 10 or more visiting the campus are required to schedule a private tour which may be arranged according to their time schedule. For each group of up to 25 people, there will be a $40 fee. Private tours may also be arranged for individuals or smaller groups. Tour requests may be made by calling 203.432.2300. Please contact the Visitor Center at least two weeks prior to the desired tour date.
Foreign Language Tours
International groups can request to have a tour given in a foreign language by contacting the Visitor Center at least two weeks prior to the tour. Groups may request a tour by calling 203.432.2300. There is a $40 fee per guide. One guide is appropriate for up to 25 people.
Yale’s West Campus
To learn more about Yale’s West Campus, please visit westcampus.yale.edu. Located 7 miles west of downtown New Haven on 136 acres, the campus includes 1.6 million square feet of research, office, and warehouse space that provides opportunities to enhance the University’s medical and scientific research and other academic programs. Groups with an interest in seeing Yale’s West Campus may submit a tour request during the academic year by calling 203-432-2302. In addition, click here for a virtual tour of West Campus.
Yale Architecture, Public Art, Sustainability and Women at Yale
Free maps highlighting the Architecture of Yale, Public Art at Yale, Sustainability at Yale and Women at Yale are available at the Yale Visitor Center. You may also view information online at Architecture of Yale, Public Art at Yale, Sustainability at Yale and Women at Yale.
Kids’ Architectural Treasure Hunt
Parents taking the campus tour with children ages 6-11 can request a brochure that encourages the children to hunt for architectural details and designs. Group tours for the treasure hunt can be arranged by calling (203) 432-2300 at least two weeks in advance.
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Night at the Library
When Sterling Memorial Library closes, the collections come to life, with rhythmic echoes of the past.
Sterling Memorial Library was designed by James Gambell Rogers in the Collegiate Gothic style, opening in 1930. Known for its cathedral-like grandeur and richly decorated interior, it is the largest of the Yale University Libraries. The Yale Library is one of the world's leading research libraries which collects, organizes, preserves, and provides access to and services for a rich and unique record of human thought and creativity. For more information:
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1742 Library of Yale at the Beinecke Library
The first printed catalogue of the Yale Library as it stood in 1742 was compiled by President Clap and published in New London the following year, with an “advertisement” by Clap (“To the Students of Yale-College”).
In 1742, the Yale Library was the largest library in New England (it is now the second largest). Of the 2600 volumes listed by Clap (a number that had grown only by a hundred by 1791), about 70 percent survive. Patiently identified and pulled from the general stacks in the 1930s--some still occasionally turn up--they are now permanently shelved and on display on the south and west sides of the glass tower in the Beinecke Library, under the general heading “1742 Library” and with the same shelf marks as they were originally assigned.
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Yale Tours
Yale College students provide a glimpse into the history and architecture of the University. Hear about Yale’s rich 300-year history and aspects of student life at several of Yale’s fourteen residential colleges. The tour also includes the Gothic Sterling Memorial Library, Yale’s largest, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Constructed with more than one hundred panels of translucent marble, the Beinecke is home to one of the world’s preeminent collections of rare materials, including the Gutenberg Bible.
Beinecke Library Construction Photo Collection Introduction
This video provides a brief overview of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Digital Collection, in particular the Beinecke Library Construction Photographs Collection. This video was created as a requirement for a course in metadata at the University of Alabama in Spring 2014.
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Turning a new page: The Gutenberg Bible at the Beinecke Library
The Gutenberg Bible is on view to the public throughout the year on the Beinecke Library mezzanine in a custom-built display case.
The pages are turned a number of times each year, to minimize for conservation the exposure any one page opening receives. This practice also allows regular visitors to enjoy different page openings over the course of time.
For the winter, 2018-2019, the openings are to the Book of Deuteronomy and to the Gospel of John.
Produced by Johann Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany, about 1455, the Gutenberg Bible is regarded as the first substantial book printed from movable type in the western world.
This iconic book marks the beginning of the general application of printing and the wide dissemination of knowledge by this means.
It is estimated that Gutenberg printed about 180 copies. The Beinecke Library’s Gutenberg Bible, a book on paper in two volumes, is one of 21 complete surviving copies, and one of five in the United States.
The Beinecke Library’s exhibition hall is free and open to the public daily. A digitized copy of the Gutenberg Bible can be viewed online on our digital library.
Visit the library's website for more information on daily hours, holiday closures, snd links to the collections:
Yale's Beinecke Library reopens after 16-month renovation
After more than a year of upgrades, Yale University's Beinecke library has reopened.