Yale Library Studies: Library Architecture at Yale
Published by Yale University Library; distributed by Yale University Press
December 2009; 160 pp
ISBN 9780300164770; $50.00
Yale University Library is pleased to announce the publication of the first
volume of Yale Library Studies, a new annual series that succeeds the Yale
University Library Gazette, which was published from 1926 to 2008. Taking
Library Architecture at Yale as its theme and subtitle, the first volume
features drawings, designs, and photographs of Yale libraries by James
Gamble Rogers, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, Paul Rudolph, Gordon Bunshaft, and
many other distinguished architects.
Essays by Robert A.M. Stern, Charles Gwathmey, Marjorie Wynne, Mark Simon,
Margaret K. Powell, Danuta A. Nitecki, Aric Lasher, and Laura Tatum explore
a of range of topics including library architecture history, space and
renovation planning, sustainable design, and Yale's architectural archives.
Library Architecture at Yale presents a unique record of the buildings that
have housed the Yale Library and its collections over the past three hundred
years. It was edited by Geoffrey Little, with an introduction by Alice
Prochaska.
Copies are available from Yale University Press and can be ordered online
at:
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/home.asp.
Future volumes of Yale Library Studies are being planned on the themes of
collections and the collectors who built them, and teaching and learning
with collections.
Geoffrey Little
Yale University Library