Library of note.(Yale University's music library)

Building Design & Construction, August, 1999 by Silver, Deborah

A new music library fits snugly into the courtyard of Yale's main library

For 20 years, Yale University searched for a suitable site for its music library. Housed for years in the university's 82-year-old music school, the music library collection had outgrown its space by the early 1970s. By the early 1990s, its materials were housed in at least four different campus buildings.

Many venues were considered for a new home, but all proved inadequate. That is, until the spring of 1994, when the university librarian, who oversees Yale's 500,000-sq.-ft. Sterling Memorial Library -- a signature building of the New Haven, Conn., campus and its main library -- looked more closely at her own work environment. Although the 72-year-old Gothic-style...

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