if you enjoy books, New Haven has bookstores, museums, libraries, & reading rooms aplenty…
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| Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library and its huge stacks and rows of books |
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| a close up look at some of the volumes at Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
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| Beinecke’s rare Gutenberg Bible, the first bible printed with moveable type |
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| the lobby of The Study At Yale is a nice place to read |
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| a reading room in Sterling Memorial Library |
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| a nice reading area in The Institute Library |
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| The Institute Library is the oldest membership library in the United States |
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| a rare view inside “The Stacks”, the upper floors in Sterling Memorial Library |
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| a rare view inside “The Stacks”, the upper floors in Sterling Memorial Library |
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| The Institute Library on Chapel Street |
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| a very small book case full of tiny books (part of ‘Odd Volumes’, currently on display at the Yale University Art Gallery) |
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| Look Closely — this baseball bat was created from pages of a Sigmund Freud book (part of ‘Odd Volumes’ at YUAG) |
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| a fictitious library, brought to life in the dining hall, for the Indiana Jones ‘Crystal Skull’ movie |
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| a library room for Yale’s Collection Of Coins
All Photographs © Mike Franzman (but sharing is enthusiastically encouraged) |