Editing Sterling Memorial Library (section)

===Wing===
[[File:Sterling Library cloister Highsmith.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Cloister leading from library's nave to its wing]]
Sterling's northern wing, accessed from the nave via a [[cloister|cloister hallway]], contains the library's offices as well as three major rooms: a lecture hall, the Memorabilia Room, and the Rare Book Room. The Memorabilia Room hosts temporary exhibitions of Yale's archival collections and university history, and serves as an antechamber to the 120-seat lecture hall.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lecture Hall and Memorabilia Room |publisher=Yale University |website=Yale University Library |url=https://web.library.yale.edu/place/lecture-hall-and-memorabilia-room |access-date=28 July 2014}}</ref>

The Rare Book Room, designed after English [[Jacobean architecture]], was built to allow library patrons to browse Yale's collection of rare books and manuscripts.<ref name="Husted"/> A vaulted, octagonal chapel behind the room was specially constructed to house a copy of the [[Gutenberg Bible]].<ref name=Bloomer /><ref name="Husted"/> The completion of the Beinecke Library in 1963 provided a more secure, climate-controlled repository for rare books, and the room and chapel now serve as a browsing room for the library's Manuscripts & Archives department.