Research Skills
Library Spaces
Ask Yale Library
Library Services
100

Use this tool to find books AND articles from Yale Library.

What is Quicksearch?

100

A popular library for undergrads, with group and individual study spaces.

What is Bass Library?

100

Enter this personal identifier to access electronic resources from off-campus.

What is my Net ID?

100

Email this librarian for help with anything library or research related.

What is my Personal Librarian?

200

The punctuation used to search for an exact phrase or book title.

What are quotation marks?

200

This library has a 24-hour study space.

What is Marx Library?

200

Access this major newspaper for free as a Yale student.

What is the New York Times?

200

This number represents how many print books first-years can borrow at a time.

What is 100?

300

A method of evaluating the accuracy of a work.

What is peer review?

300
Sterling Memorial Library opened in this year.

What is 1931?

300

This type of material is held in Manuscripts & Archives and the Beinecke Library.

What are primary sources?

What are special collections?

300

A service to request a PDF of a book chapter from a book at Yale.

What is Scan and Deliver?

400

These articles are not considered "scholarly."

What are newspaper articles?
400

You must wear this at all times when inside the library.

What is a mask?

400

The number of books held inside Sterling Memorial Library.

What is 15 million?
400
One way to borrow a book that Yale Library does not own.

What is InterLibrary Loan?

What is BorrowDirect?

500

Use these 3 words to expand and narrow your search results.

What is AND, OR, and NOT?

500

This library owns a collection of Chipotle Cups.

What is the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library?

500

Where to go if you can't remember any of this information later.

What is Ask Yale Library?

What is my Personal Librarian?
500
This service provides e-books to Yale students during COVID-19.

What is HathiTrust?

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