Editing Sterling Memorial Library (section)

===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>