Book recommendations, interlibrary loan requests, reserve requests, reference queries, and other suggestions about the science libraries can be accomplished online from the Science Library Directory. The library is equipped with photocopy machines, and payment can be made in cash or through a Yale account. Books circulate but journals do not. The Anthropology Library is located on the lower level of the Kline Science Library. Hours may vary during holiday and recess periods.
Publications employing technical and theoretical approaches are the core of the collection.
The EAS Library collects materials in the areas of applied mathematics, applied physics, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. The library has Yale engineering dissertations and technical reports from the Computer Science Department and the Systems Science Center. Hours may vary during holiday and recess periods. Special holdings include a complete set of U.S. Forest Service Experiment Station publications, vertical file materials, and selected items from the periodical literature. One example database gives access to some 25,000 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations records on microfiche in the Government Documents Center Library.