To get there, take the LEFT stairway from the Information Room down two floors. Biographies have special call numbers that enable them to be arranged alphabetically by subject of the biography. These call numbers consist of Biog or Coll Biog and a letter or letters and a decimal number. Thus W334 precedes W4. The A's start in the far right corner of the room.
Oversize biographies follow after regular biographies.
Collective biographies are shelved after the Biographies and are arranged by author. Oversize collective biographies are shelved after the regular sized collective biographies. Biographies and Collective Biographies published in the 20th century may be retrieved and checked out at the Circulation Desk any time that the Medical Library is open. They may be requested through Eli Express from other Yale libraries. Books circulate for two months.