If you are a student or faculty member and you are interested in storing materials in Sterling Memorial Library, here are a few additional reading rooms where you may reserve a shelf for your library materials:
| Room | Room Number | Eligible |
| American Studies Reading Room | 608 | Yale faculty, undergraduate and graduate students |
| Andrews Study | 215 | Yale faculty, undergraduate and graduate students |
| East Asia Reading Room | 222 | Yale faculty, undergraduate and graduate students |
| Southeast Asian Studies Reading Room | 214 | Yale faculty and graduate students |
| Slavic Reading Room | 406 | Yale faculty, undergraduate and graduate students |
If you are interested in reserving a shelf in one of these reading rooms, please contact askyalelibrary@yale.edu
Shelf assignments are available through the end of the academic year. If you have a shelf assignment, you will be sent an email before this shelf assignment ends. You will be given the option to renew or relinquish your shelf.
If you are no longer in need of your shelf during the academic year, please email askyalelibrary@yale.edu.
Reading Room shelves are available for use during all hours Sterling Memorial Library is open. Library hours are posted here.
Shelves are for Yale faculty, undergraduates and graduate students doing active research. Storing materials on shelves provides an alternative to transporting materials to and from the library.
Books are charged to your shelf instead of to your personal account. Access Services staff review materials on assigned shelves each week, charging new materials to the shelf and removing any materials that are no longer needed.
Please note, the following are not allowed on your shelves:
If these items are found in your shelves, they will be removed and either send back to the lending library or, if owned by Yale Library, reshelved.
You must actively use your assigned shelves.
Failure to honor these policies may result in the loss of your shelf.
To charge books to your shelf
Fill out a shelf charge card. (Charge cards are available at the Sterling Memorial Library service desk.) Fill out one card for each book you would like to store on your shelf. Access Services staff will charge materials to your shelf each week. After your item is charged to the shelf, please keep the charge card in the book so it is easy for staff to identify which materials need attention and which do not.
If you do not fill out a charge card, you will receive a written reminder and date by which the card must be filled out. If a card is not filled out by the specified date, materials will be removed from your shelves..
To remove materials from your shelf
Simply turn the charge card upside down and place it in the book, displaying the "To Be Discharged" request. Staff will clear these items accordingly.
To transfer items to and from your personal account
When you store materials on a shelf, they are charged to the shelf as opposed to your personal account. If you wish to take materials charged to your shelf out of the library, please bring the book to the desk in Sterling Memorial Library to have it discharged. Staff will then charge it to your personal account.
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