Academic programs – Use lowercase. For the list of departments and programs, see http://www.yale.edu/departments/index.html .
Borrow Direct – Not BorrowDirect. Use capitals.
Course guides – Not LibGuides, not class guides. Use lower case.
Course reserves – Use lower case.
Database – Not data base. Use lower case.
Digital collections – Use lower case.
eBook – Not e-Book, Ebook, etc.
eJournal – Not e-Journal, Ejournal, etc.
EliScholar – Not Eli Scholar.
Get It @Yale – Use capitals, no space between @ sign and Yale.
Off-campus access – Not remote access. Use hyphen and lower case.
Personal librarian – Use lowercase.
Research guides – Not LibGuides. Refers to both course and subject guides. Use lower case.
Subject guides – Not LibGuides. Use lowercase.
Subject specialists – Not Subject Librarians. Use lower case.
Yale College majors – Use lower case for majors. For the list of majors, see
Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library – Arts Library acceptable on second reference.
American Oriental Society
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Library – Bass Library acceptable on second reference.
Babylonian Collection
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library – Beinecke Library acceptable on second reference. Note use of ampersand.
Marx Science and Social Science Library – Marx Library acceptable on second reference. The Center acceptable for internal use only. Note use of and.
Department of Area Studies and Humanities - DASHRS acceptable on second reference
African Collection
Classics Library
East Asia Library
Humanities Collections
Judaica Collection
Latin American & Iberian Collections
Near East collection
Slavic & East European Collections – Note use of ampersand.
Southeast Asia Collection
Divinity School Library – Divinity Library acceptable on second reference.
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies – The Archive (note capitalization) acceptable on second reference.
Geology Library
Lillian Goldman Law Library in Memory of Sol Goldman – Lillian Goldman Law Library acceptable on first reference. Law Library acceptable on second reference.
Lewis Walpole Library
Manuscripts & Archives – Note use of ampersand. MSSA acceptable for internal use only.
Map Collection
Mathematics Library
Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library – Cushing/Whitney Medical Library acceptable on first reference. Medical Library acceptable on second reference.
Irving S. Gilmore Music Library – Music Library acceptable on second reference.
Sterling Memorial Library – SML acceptable on second reference.
Yale Center for British Art – The Center acceptable on second refere