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University ResourceslibrariesThe major collection of the School of Nursing is in the Yale Medical Library, whichserves the entire Yale–New Haven Medical Center, as well as others in Yale University,and also offers its services to the nursing and health professions at large.The Yale Medical Library is staffed by 41 people (13 professional librarians and 28library assistants), who provide such services as acquiring and organizing the collections,guiding users, lending or photocopying materials, and obtaining from other librariesthose needed items that the library does not own. The library also offers library instructionand specialized seminars, and access to online databases both by the reader andthrough a mediated search service.The collections covering nursing, clinical medicine and its specialties, the preclinicalsciences, public health, and related fields, are among the country’s largest in a medicalcenter, numbering over 380,000 volumes. About 90,000 or more are source materials orsupporting works in the historical collections, including over 315 incunabula. Over 2,400current journals are received regularly. The collections also include over 50 manuscriptvolumes of the twelfth through sixteenth centuries, prints and drawings, paintings, artslides, and museum objects. The Historical Library, a section of the Yale MedicalLibrary, was founded by Dr. Harvey Cushing, Dr. Arnold C. Klebs, and Dr. John F.Fulton, whose personal collections form its core.Many units of the Medical Center maintain their own specialized libraries, includingthe small reference library in the School of Nursing’s education unit. Yale’s main libraryis the Sterling Memorial Library, which, together with the Beinecke Rare Book andManuscript Library, the Cross Campus Library, and the Seeley G. Mudd Library, containsabout 5,600,000 volumes. The Kline Science Library has 358,000 volumes andreceives about 1,900 current journals, many in the life sciences. Messengers transportbooks daily among these and other units of the Yale University Library, whose over 10million volumes are available to all members of the University.general resourcesA calendar of events in the University is issued each week during the academic year in theYale Bulletin & Calendar. The hours when special as well as permanent collections of theUniversity may be seen are also recorded in this publication.The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History contains collections in anthropology,mineralogy, oceanography, paleontology, and some aspects of geology.The Yale University Art Gallery contains representative collections of ancient,medieval, and Renaissance art, Near and Far Eastern art, archaeological material fromthe University’s excavations, Pre-Columbian and African art, works of European andAmerican masters from virtually every period, and a rich collection of modern art.