Sterling Memorial Library

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Sterling Memorial Library is the largest and most iconic library at Yale University, renowned for its Gothic Revival architecture and extensive research collections.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf academic library
research library
university library building
affiliation Yale University
architect James Gamble Rogers
architecturalStyle Collegiate Gothic
Gothic Revival
buildingType library building
collectionSize millions of volumes
country United States of America
floorCount 15
function main library of Yale University
research library
hasCollectionType archives
area studies collections
humanities collections
manuscripts
rare books
social sciences collections
special collections
hasDesignation iconic library of Yale University
hasFacility courtyard
exhibition spaces
reading rooms
reference desks
study spaces
tower
hasFeature Gothic nave-like central hall
cloister-like corridors
ornate entrance hall
stained glass windows
stone carvings
hasOnlineCatalog Orbis
hasService instructional services
interlibrary loan
research support
inception 1931
isMainLibraryOf Yale University
surface form: "Yale College"

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
language English
locatedIn New Haven, Connecticut
locatedOn Yale University campus
name Sterling Memorial Library
namedAfter John W. Sterling
opened 1931
operator Yale University Library system
surface form: "Yale University Library"
partOf Yale University Library system
relativeSize largest library at Yale University
underwentRenovation 2014

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Cross Campus adjacentTo Sterling Memorial Library
James Gamble Rogers designed Sterling Memorial Library
this entity surface form: "Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University"
New Haven, Connecticut hasLandmark Sterling Memorial Library
Yale University campus hasPart Sterling Memorial Library
Sterling Memorial Library name Sterling Memorial Library
Saybrook College nearbyBuilding Sterling Memorial Library
James Gamble Rogers notableWork Sterling Memorial Library

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