Editing Sterling Memorial Library (section)

===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>