Sterling Memorial Library
Sterling Memorial Library (SML) is the main library building of the Yale University Library system in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Opened in 1931, the library was designed by James Gamble Rogers as the centerpiece of Yale's Gothic Revival campus. The library's tower has sixteen levels of bookstacks containing over 4 million volumes. Several special collections—including the university's Manuscripts & Archives—are also housed in the building. It connects via tunnel to the underground Bass Library, which holds an additional 150,000 volumes.
Facade and tower of Sterling Memorial Library
John W. Sterling, the library's namesake
The nave, looking towards the circulation desk
Starr Reading Room
James Gamble Rogers was an American architect. A proponent of what came to be known as Collegiate Gothic architecture, he is best known for his academic commissions at Yale University, Columbia University, Northwestern University, and elsewhere.
Portrait by William Sergeant Kendall
A tribute to Rogers in the Memorial Quadrangle, Lee Lawrie, sculptor.
Butler Library at Columbia University
Rogers' Memorial Quadrangle at Yale University's Branford College.