Lillian Goldman Law Library

Lillian Goldman Law Library in Memory of Sol Goldman
Reading Room of Lillian Goldman Law Library
LocationNew Haven, Connecticut, United States
TypeLaw library
Collection
Size800,000 volumes
Other information
Websitelibrary.law.yale.edu

The Lillian Goldman Law Library in Memory of Sol Goldman (previously known as Yale Law Library) is the law library of Yale University. It primarily serves Yale Law School.

It is located in the Sterling Law Building and has almost 800,000 volumes of print materials and about 10,000 active serial titles, in which there are 200,000 volumes of foreign and international law materials. In 1992, the law library was renamed following a US$20 million donation by Lillian Goldman, widow of real estate magnate Sol Goldman.

Facilities

The library is contained within five stories on the eastern wing of the Sterling Law Building, completed in 1931 and designed by James Gamble Rodgers. The library's main reading room, named for the Class of 1964, is located on the library's third story. Employing the Collegiate Gothic style used throughout the law school campus, it is modeled after the King's College Chapel at the University of Cambridge.

In addition to the library's main body, two annex levels of bookstacks are contained below Beinecke Plaza, and infrequently used items are contained in the Yale University Library Shelving Facility in Hamden, Connecticut.

View of Reading Room from above

Projects run by the library include the Avalon Project.

Anecdotes

Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton first met there.

References

  1. ↑ "Lillian Goldman, 80, Yale Law School Donor and Advocate for Women's Education". The New York Times. August 21, 2002. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
  2. ↑ Pinnell, Patrick L. (1999). The Campus Guide: Yale University. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 98. ISBN 1568981678.
  3. ↑ "Guide to the Lillian Goldman Law Library In Memory of Sol Goldman" (PDF). Yale Law School. September 2011. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
  4. ↑ Clinton, Bill (2004). My Life. Random House. ISBN 1-4000-3003-X.
  5. ↑ Bernstein, Carl (2007). A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-375-40766-6.
  6. ↑ Clinton, Hillary. Living History. ABC News. Retrieved April 28, 2014.

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