Arts Library

The Yale University Library is one of the great libraries in the world. The Arts Library, established soon after 1868, is part of the Yale University Library and is located at 270 Crown Street until renovation of the Art and Architecture Building is complete. It contains more than 100,000 volumes on architecture, painting, sculpture, graphic design, urban planning, and the history of art and architecture. It serves as the working library for the School of Architecture, the School of Art, the History of Art Department, and the Yale University Art Gallery, and as an adjunct library for the Yale Center for British Art. The collection includes basic reference works, monographs, exhibition catalogues, and histories of the aforementioned fields, bound periodicals, and subscriptions to more than 500 current periodicals and museum bulletins. Approximately 150,000 additional volumes in these fields may be found in related collections at three other Yale libraries: Sterling Memorial Library, the Seeley G. Mudd Library, and the new Library Shelving Facility. The library offers further access to an expanding range of digital resources and has played a leading role in planning for the digital future in the imaging arena.

Arts Library staff gladly assist students and faculty in exploring the enormously rich library resources at Yale and offer a wide-ranging instructional program aimed at quickly initiating new members of the community into the complex world of information resources.