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The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (/ ˈ b aɪ n ɪ k i /) is the rare book library and literary archive of the Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut.It is one of the largest buildings in the world dedicated to rare books and manuscripts and is one of the largest collections of such texts. [1]
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. [29] 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. [11]
The Yale Film Archive is a film archive with a collection of 35mm and 16mm film prints and original elements, as well as films on Blu-ray, DVD, and VHS. The Yale University Library includes libraries beyond its campus in New Haven. [19]
In 1967, an extension of Sterling Memorial Library was proposed to expand the library's space for collections. [1] Though originally proposed to house the library's East Asian collection and Yale memorabilia, librarians decided instead to utilize the new space to improve access to frequently-used materials and reserve books.
Playing card (fused Jack of Spades and November Hikari) from the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.. The Cary Collection of Playing Cards, held at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Yale University in the United States, is one of the most significant assemblages of materials relating to playing cards and related ephemera in North America.
Horace Walpole, whose papers are held at the Lewis Walpole Library. The Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut, is part of the Yale University Library system It holds important collections of 18th-century British literary remains, including an unrivalled quantity of Horace Walpole's papers and effects from his estate at Strawberry Hill in Twickenham in west London.
Yale University Library, which holds over 15 million volumes, is the third-largest university collection in the United States. [12] [171] The main library, Sterling Memorial Library, contains about 4 million volumes, and other holdings are dispersed at subject and location libraries. Rare books are found in several Yale collections.
In 1968, Yale began collecting 16mm film with the purchase of several hundred prints known as the John Griggs Collection of Classic Films. [4] The Griggs films came to Yale largely through the efforts of experimental filmmaker Standish Lawder, then Assistant Professor in Yale’s History of Art Department, and Yale alumnus Spencer Berger, a film collector and historian of the Barrymore family.