Anne T. & Robert M. Bass Library, formerly Cross Campus Library, is Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

's main library

Library

In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...

 for frequently used materials in the humanities and social sciences, with an especially large literature collection. In addition, Bass contains many reading and studying spaces, a large computer lab, and an area for books held in reserve. The Cross Campus Library was originally built in 1971 in a minimalist-functionalist style and designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes

Edward Larrabee Barnes

Edward Larrabee Barnes was a American architect.Barnes was born in Chicago, Illinois into a family he described as "incense-swinging High Episcopalians", consisting of Cecil Barnes, a lawyer, and Margaret Helen Ayer, recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for the novel Year of Grace...

. It extends two-stories beneath Yale's Cross Campus and connects to Sterling Memorial Library

Sterling Memorial Library

Sterling Memorial Library is the largest library at Yale University, containing over 4 million volumes. It is an example of Gothic revival architecture, designed by James Gamble Rogers, adorned with thousands of panes of stained glass created by G. Owen Bonawit.The Library has 15 levels, each with...

 via an underground tunnel and the Wright Reading Room.

The library was extensively redesigned during the 2006-2007 academic year by Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge Architects and reopened at midnight on October 19, 2007 as the Bass Library. A new Gothic revival

Gothic Revival architecture

The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...

 entrance, equipped for disabled access, complements the two buildings it sits between, the north half of Berkeley College

Berkeley College (Yale)

Berkeley College is a residential college at Yale University, constructed in 1934. The eighth of Yale's 12 residential colleges, it was named in honor of Reverend George Berkeley , dean of Derry and later bishop of Cloyne, in recognition of the assistance in land and books that he gave to Yale in...

and William L. Harkness Hall. The new library includes a cafe, electronic classrooms and group study rooms.