Some of the Yale libraries are open to residents (or even tourists!). The Beinecke (rare book collection) is open to the public; I'm not sure how much of the collection visitors can get to, but the building itself can be toured, and there are usually exhibits. It's costly for non-Yalies to get stack passes for Stirling library (the main library, but the main reading rooms and main entry hall are freely accessible. Some of these reading rooms and courtyards are quite impressive.
That's one of the things that struck me about this library -- Lamont, the one I work in -- and Harvard in general: the worn spots of previous generations.
Unfortunately, I don't feel the same romanticism for Yale's worn spots. Not because of some misplaced notion of Ivy League rivalry, but because I took my GRE test in a Yale auditorium. The centuries of graffitti on the desktops made it tough to fill out the scantron bubbles. My pencil would get stuck in a groove and I'd spend the next precious minutes erasing a jagged line.
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Nope, haven't been.
I heard recently that Yale libraries are open to residents. Is that true?
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Some of the Yale libraries are open to residents (or even tourists!). The Beinecke (rare book collection) is open to the public; I'm not sure how much of the collection visitors can get to, but the building itself can be toured, and there are usually exhibits. It's costly for non-Yalies to get stack passes for Stirling library (the main library, but the main reading rooms and main entry hall are freely accessible. Some of these reading rooms and courtyards are quite impressive.
That's one of the things that struck me about this library -- Lamont, the one I work in -- and Harvard in general: the worn spots of previous generations.
Unfortunately, I don't feel the same romanticism for Yale's worn spots. Not because of some misplaced notion of Ivy League rivalry, but because I took my GRE test in a Yale auditorium. The centuries of graffitti on the desktops made it tough to fill out the scantron bubbles. My pencil would get stuck in a groove and I'd spend the next precious minutes erasing a jagged line.
Frickin' ancestry...
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