Researchers returned to the reading room of Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library on Sept. 6 following a 16-month renovation that has prepared the iconic building for its next chapter. “It ...

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, on the Yale University campus in New Haven, Conn. June 9th, 2013.The Beinecke Library will reopen its iconic building on Tuesday, Sept. 6, following a 16 ...

Improve library operations and update its technology to accommodate Sterling’s physical and digital collections. SILVER AWARD. Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University New Haven, Conn. Building Team ...

Cloistered by a shell of stone, the 1963 Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in Yale, US, is one of the world’s foremost collections of rare manuscripts.

The plans, which were prepared by a New York firm, provide for a building with a capacity of 300,000 volumes. It will be almost square, about 100 feet on a side, and 80 feet high.

Which is most surprising: That Yale University is spending $126-million to renovate and add to a 1963 Modernist building that almost everyone has hated for decades? That the project’s champion ...