Yale University Library

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Yale University Library is the library system of Yale University. It is the second-largest university collection in the world with over 12 million volumes housed in more than 26 individual libraries. Several of its collections rank amongst the best anywhere and attract scholars from around the globe.

The main library, Sterling Memorial Library, contains about four million volumes, including several specialized departments. The Beinecke Rare Book Library possesses one of the greatest assemblages of rare and historical books and manuscripts in existence. Other important libraries include the Law School Library Lillian Goldman Law Library, with nearly 800,000 volumes, the Medical Library (complete with the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library of historical medical works), the Music Library, and the Divinity School Library. Yale also possesses libraries beyond its campus in New Haven, Connecticut, such as the Lewis Walpole Library at Farmington, which features part of Yale's enormous collections of English eighteenth-century literary papers and books. Other important collections include the Yale Babylonian Collection.