Editing Sterling Memorial Library (section)

==Collections==

===Catalog===
[[File:Sterling_Memorial_Library_card_catalog.jpeg|thumb|Card catalogs stood in echelons in the nave in this 2010 image. A [[Online public access catalog|computer catalog]] now serves that information, and, since 2014, tables and chairs for student use fill that space.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Reformation comes to Sterling Library|url=https://yalealumnimagazine.com/blog_posts/1876-the-reformation-comes-to-sterling-library|author=Branch, Mark Alden|date=September 2, 2014|work=Yale Alumni Magazine|access-date=June 30, 2016}}</ref>]]
The large majority of materials in Sterling are housed in the bookstacks, which are contained in the building's tower. The bookstacks use two classification systems: the Yale Library system and the Library of Congress system. Adopted in the 1890s, the non-standard Yale system became cumbersome and inefficient for cataloging. Though replaced in 1970 by the Library of Congress system, many of the 5.7 million volumes held by the library at that time remain filed in the Yale system.<ref name="Gordon">{{cite news |last=Gordon |first=Gideon |title=Library Changing Catalog System |date=5 November 1970 |newspaper=Yale Daily News |url=http://digital.library.yale.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/yale-ydn/id/194619/rec/73 |access-date=23 April 2014}}</ref> The card catalogs in the nave once contained as many as 9.5 million cards, sorted in 8,700 trays.<ref name="Taylor" />

===Manuscripts & Archives===
Manuscripts & Archives is the primary archival repository of the university, housing Yale memorabilia, university archives, historical manuscripts, and personal papers donated to the university.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Manuscripts & Archives |website=Yale University Library |publisher=Yale University |url=https://web.library.yale.edu/mssa/about |access-date=30 April 2014}}</ref> Though the archive uses the former Rare Book Room as its primary reading room, most of the collection is held off-site. Significant materials within Manuscripts & Archives include the papers of [[Charles Lindbergh]], [[Eero Saarinen]], [[Eli Whitney]], [[John Maley]] and the audio library of [[Osama bin Laden]].<ref>{{cite web |title=List of Manuscript Collections |publisher=Yale University Manuscripts & Archives |url=http://images.library.yale.edu/madid/browse.aspx?q=collections |access-date=6 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Shelton |first=Jim |title=At Yale, bin Laden's audiotape collection yields new insights, scholar says |newspaper=New Haven Register |date=29 March 2014 |url=http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20140329/at-yale-bin-ladens-audiotape-collection-yields-new-insights-scholar-says |access-date=4 June 2014}}</ref> The archives hosts a notable collection of diplomatic papers, including those of [[Dean Acheson]], [[Henry Kissinger]], [[Henry Stimson]], and [[Cyrus Vance]].<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Yale to Receive Kissinger Papers and Establish the Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy |newspaper=YaleNews |publisher=Yale University |date=14 June 2011 |url=https://news.yale.edu/2011/06/14/yale-receive-kissinger-papers-and-establish-johnson-center-study-american-diplomacy |access-date=4 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Kissinger donates his papers to Yale |date=15 June 2014 |work=Fox News |publisher=Fox Corporation |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/kissinger-donates-his-papers-to-yale/ |access-date=4 June 2014}}</ref>

===Music Library===
[[File:Yale music library.JPG|150px|thumb|Irving S. Gilmore Music Library main staircase]]
Audio, visual, and paper materials related to music are retained in the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, a facility converted from one of Sterling's courtyards. The collection was established in the mid-19th century under [[Gustave J. Stoeckel]], and was expanded by the acquisition of [[Lowell Mason]]'s papers and library in 1873.<ref name="ELIS">{{cite encyclopedia |year=1982 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science |volume=33 |editor1-last=Kent |editor1-first=Allen |editor2-last=Daily |editor2-first=Jay E. |edition=1st |pages=267–365}}</ref> Its collections include one of the largest catalogs of recordings and scores in the United States, including the papers of [[Charles Ives]], [[Carl Ruggles]], [[Quincy Porter]], [[Horatio Parker]], [[Virgil Thomson]], [[Clarence Watters]], [[Richard Donovan (composer)|Richard Donovan]], and [[J. Rosamond Johnson]].<ref name="Taylor" /> The collection was moved to Sprague Hall of the [[Yale School of Music]] in 1955, then to Sterling after the Gilmore Library was completed in 1997.<ref name="Taylor" /><ref name="Martz" />

===Film Archive===
The seventh floor of Sterling Memorial Library holds the [[Yale Film Archive]], which holds collections of more than 7,000 film elements, including hundreds of unique 35mm and 16mm prints and original negatives, as well as more than 50,000 items in its circulating video collection. The archive, which grew from a small collection of 16mm prints acquired for use in teaching film in 1968, was formally established in 1982 and moved to Sterling in 2021. Its collections include original material by filmmakers including [[Mary Ellen Bute]], [[Frank Mouris]], [[Warrington Hudlin]], and [[Willie Ruff]]. The Film Archive collects, preserves, and screens films in its collection, and is an Associate of the [[International Federation of Film Archives]].

===Special collections===
The library houses several special collections:
* The [[Yale Babylonian Collection]], the largest collection of Babylonian [[cuneiform|cuneiform writing]] in North America;<ref>{{cite journal |last=Vitelli |first=Karen D. |title=The Antiquities Market: News and Commentary on the Illicit Traffic in Antiquities |journal=Journal of Field Archaeology |date=1970 |volume=7 |issue=1 |page=124 |publisher=Boston University |doi=10.1179/009346980791505563 }}</ref>
* The library of the [[American Oriental Society]], the oldest American [[learned society]] for [[area studies]], whose catalog has been housed at Yale since 1855;<ref>{{cite book |title=Catalogue of the Library of the American Oriental Society |location=New Haven |publisher=Yale University Library |year=1930 |editor-last=Strout |editor-first=Elizabeth |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000491247 |access-date=30 April 2014}}</ref>
* The Map Collection, a collection of over 200,000 print maps as well as [[Geographic Information Systems]] data;<ref>{{cite web |title=The Yale Print Map Collection |website=Yale University Library |publisher=Yale University |url=http://www.library.yale.edu/MapColl/print_index.html |access-date=30 April 2014}}</ref>
* Arts of the Book, a variety of materials related to [[printing]], [[bookbinding]], [[woodblock printing|woodblock]], and [[graphic design]].
* The "[[Near East]] Collection holds one of the most comprehensive assemblies of Arabic and Islamic studies materials in the US."<ref name="Kesting 2022 f949">{{cite web | last=Kesting | first=Piney | title=The Legacy of Arabic in America | website=AramcoWorld | date=March 28, 2022 | url=https://www.aramcoworld.com/Articles/January-2018/The-Legacy-of-Arabic-in-America | access-date=August 8, 2023}}</ref>

===Major editorial projects===
* [[The Papers of Benjamin Franklin]], a project founded in 1954 to collect and publish all the papers of [[Benjamin Franklin]].<ref>{{cite web |title=About the Project |website=Papers of Benjamin Franklin |publisher=Yale University |url=https://franklinpapers.yale.edu/about-project |access-date=30 April 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809012740/http://www.yale.edu/franklinpapers/project.html |archive-date=9 August 2014 }}</ref> The library received a major donation of Franklin's papers when Sterling opened in 1935, and the collection formed the basis of Yale professor [[Edmund Morgan (historian)|Edmund Morgan's]] best-selling biography of Franklin.<ref>{{cite journal |last=McElroy |first=James |title=Finding Franklin |journal=Yale Alumni Magazine |date=November 2002 |url=https://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/02_11/franklin.html |access-date=30 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Grimes |first=William |title=Edmund S. Morgan, Historian Who Shed Light on Puritans, Dies at 97 |date=9 July 2013 |newspaper=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/us/edmund-s-morgan-historian-who-shed-light-on-puritans-dies-at-97.html |access-date=30 April 2014}}</ref>
*The [[Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies]], a collection of about 4,500 video-recorded testimonies from witness and survivors of the [[Holocaust]], deposited in the library in 1981.<ref name="Rudof">{{cite web |url=https://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/publications/Local_to_Global.pdf |title=A Yale University and New Haven Community Project: From Local to Global |last=Rudof |first=Joanne Weiner |date=October 2007 |publisher=Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies |access-date=6 June 2014}}</ref>
* Boswell Editions, an edited collection of the papers and publications of Scottish lawyer [[James Boswell]], the major biographer of the famous 18th century English literary figure [[Samuel Johnson]].<ref name="Taylor"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://boswelleditions.yale.edu/ |access-date=28 July 2014 |title=Yale Boswell Editions |publisher=Yale University}}</ref>
* Wing STC Revision Project, an effort begun in 1933 by Yale librarian [[Donald Wing]] to compile a [[Donald Wing#The Short-Title Catalogue (STC)|Short-Title Catalogue]], a bibliographic reference for books printed in England and its colonies between 1641 and 1700.<ref>{{cite book |last=Crist |first=T. J |year=1993 |chapter=Wing, Donald Goddard |editor-last=Wedgeworth |editor-first=Robert |title=ALA World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services |edition=3rd |pages=868–869 |location=Chicago |publisher=American Library Association}}</ref>