Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 19, 2007|Volume 36, Number 7

With the renovations nearly complete, a workman puts the final touches on the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Library.

Newly renovated and renamed library reopens

The newly renovated and renamed Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Library (formerly known as the Cross Campus Library) has opened its doors after undergoing extensive renovations.

Members of the Yale community got their first glimpse of the Bass Library at a preview event on Oct. 18. At that event, participants also had the opportunity to sample refreshments from the new Library Café, which offers a sustainable menu of locally sourced food.

At midnight, a group of students, faculty and staff carried the first 20 books from the Wright Reading Room (also newly reopened) in the basement of Sterling Memorial Library to the shelves of the Bass Library. The ceremony was designed to recall both the meeting of the ministers who in 1701 gathered to donate books for the creation of a college and the procession of books in 1930 that marked the move from Yale’s Old Library (now Dwight Hall) to Sterling Memorial Library.

The remainder of the library’s collections will be moved to the Bass Library in the next few days, and finishing touches will continue over the coming months.

Named to honor the generosity of Anne T. and Robert M. Bass ’71, the library has been completely renovated and redesigned to better serve the needs of Yale students, teaching faculty and staff.

It features new group study rooms, individual study carrels and custom-designed furnishings. The library will house intensive-use and reserve collections needed by readers on a daily basis.

It will also be home to the new Collaborative Learning Center, an evolving partnership between the Yale University Library, the Instructional Technology Group, the McDougal Graduate Teaching Center, the Yale Center for Language Study and Yale Information Technology Services.

The Library Café will be open to the public as well as to the Yale community (see related story).

The renovation of the Bass Library began in May 2006. For more information and a history of the renovation, visit www.library.yale.edu/renovaxn/phase2a/.

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