Hogwarts... or the old Yale Library?

Guys …. This looks like a scene from a mystery movie or the library at Hogwarts. The old Yale library building is eight stories high and in my day, only the first floor with its enormous islands of wooden card catalog files was accessible to undergraduates. Some lucky graduate students were allowed into the seven floors of “stacks” where actual books could be seen. I used to imagine what the stacks looked like and this image is pretty close to the one in my head.

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And editors note, here is the NEW one… Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Yale University Hewitt Quadrangle, New Haven, Connecticut, Apr. 2014