Editing Sterling Memorial Library (section)

===Reading rooms===
[[File:Starr Reading Room east.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Starr Reading Room]]
Four reading rooms sit near the nave on the first floor of the library:

* Starr Reading Room, the main reading room of the library, is at the south end of the library, next to [[Trumbull College]]. It is a [[reference work|reference room]] designed in the style of a [[Refectory#Refectories and monastic culture|monastic refectory]].<ref name="Bloomer" /><ref name=Goldberger1985/> Under a [[barrel vault|barrel-vault]]ed ceiling, the room is lined with [[tracery|traceried windows]] and [[oak]] bookshelves decorated with a botanical [[frieze]].<ref name="Husted" /> A 1998 restoration was funded by [[The Starr Foundation]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Langdon |first=Philip |title=Renovating a Classic Campus |date=November 1998 |journal=Yale Alumni Magazine |url=https://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/98_11/renovation.html |access-date=4 April 2014}}</ref>
* The Periodical Reading Room, lined with oak shelves like those of the main reading room, is reached through from a vestibule on the north side of the nave. The room can hold 1,800 periodicals and features windows decorated with signs of the zodiac to symbolize periodicity.<ref name="Husted" />
* Linonia and Brothers Reading Room, a [[Tudor architecture|Tudor-style]] browsing room at the building's northeast corner. It is named for Yale's two 18th-century literary societies, [[Linonia]] and [[Brothers in Unity]], and holds about 20,000 books.<ref name="Husted" /> Intended to be a "[[gentlemen's club]]" for leisure reading, it was not opened to women until the 1960s.<ref name="Schiff" />
* Franke Family Reading Room, a periodical browsing room, is in the library's southeast corner. Originally a room for frequently-used materials known as the Reserve Book Room, its collections were moved to [[Cross Campus Library]] in 1971.<ref>{{cite news |title=Linonia & Brothers To Remain Intact |date=1 April 1971 |newspaper=Yale Daily News |url=http://digital.library.yale.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/yale-ydn/id/194932/rec/25 |access-date=23 April 2014}}</ref>

The tower holds smaller reading rooms for the library's [[area studies]] holdings, including African, East Asian, Latin American, Near East, Slavic and East European, Southeast Asian, and Judaica collections. There are also dedicated reading rooms for several fields of study, including [[American Studies]], [[History]], and [[Philosophy]].

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File:Linonia_and_Brothers_Reading_Room_north.JPG|Linonia and Brothers Reading Room
File:Sterling_Memorial_Library_Newspaper_Reading_Room.JPG|Periodical Reading Room
File:Slavic_Reading_Room.JPG|Slavic Reading Room
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