Examples

• Académie Nationale de Médecine in Paris, France
• Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The library contains rare books and original manuscripts.
• Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, France
• Boston Athenaeum²
• British Library - most items in London and all items at Boston Spa in Yorkshire³
• Deering Library at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois
• Fales Library on the third floor of the New York University Bobst Library in New York City. 200,000 volumes.⁴
• Free Library of Philadelphia
• Frick Art Reference Library in New York City. 285,000 books. 80,000 auction catalogs.⁵⁶
• Leiden University Library in Leiden⁷
• The Library of Congress in Washington D.C.⁸ over 34,000,000 volumes as of 2010.⁹
• Research collections of The New York Public Library in New York City¹⁰
• National Library of Australia in Canberra, Australia. 10 million volumes¹¹
• National Library of Finland in Helsinki, Finland¹²
• Radcliffe Science Library at the University of Oxford, England
• Ralph Brown Draughon Library at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama.
• The Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the Bookstacks of the Main Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.¹³
• Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago¹⁴
• Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. Original manuscripts.¹⁵
• The Special Collections division of the University at Buffalo Libraries in Amherst, NY, which includes the Poetry Collection, Archives, and Rare Books.¹⁶
• State of Arizona Research Library, a division of the Secretary of State of Arizona in Phoenix, AZ, which includes the Arizona Collection, the Federal Documents Collection, the Arizona State Government Publications Collection, a map collection, a law collection, and the largest collection of Arizona newspapers in Arizona.¹⁷
• Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives on the tenth floor of the New York University Bobst Library in New York City. 75,000 volumes.¹⁸
• Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada¹⁹
• Bruce Peel Special Collections at the University of Alberta Library²⁰

References

1. "Closed stack". dictionary.com. Retrieved 2015-07-10. Having access to the stacks limited to the staff of the library or to a limited group of library users. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/closed-stack ↩

2. [1] Boston Athenaeum's Research Appointment Information for the Special Collections Reading Room http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/collections/research-appointment ↩

3. "How to order items". The British Library. Retrieved 2022-09-17. https://www.bl.uk/help/how-to-order-items ↩

4. "The Fales Library & Special Collections". Fales Library. Retrieved 2015-07-01. We maintain a closed stacks reading room for scholarly access to our book collections, archival and manuscript collections, and media holdings. http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/ ↩

5. [2] Frick Library collection reference. http://www.frick.org/library/collections.htm ↩

6. [3] Frick Library reference to noncirculating materials http://www.frick.org/library/reference_services.htm ↩

7. "Borrow - Leiden University". www.library.universiteitleiden.nl. Retrieved 2022-09-17. https://www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/using-the-library/borrowing/borrow ↩

8. [4] Reference to using the closed stacks at the Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/research/ ↩

9. List of libraries in the United States with more than five million volumes Library of Congress circulation listed /wiki/List_of_libraries_in_the_United_States_with_more_than_five_million_volumes ↩

10. [5] New York Public Library's Research Divisions http://www.nypl.org/research-divisions/ ↩

11. [6] National Library of Australia Facts and Figures https://www.nla.gov.au/facts-and-figures ↩

12. [7] National Library of Finland mentions its closed stacks on their website http://www.nationallibrary.fi/services/kokoelmat/avokokoelmajasuljetunvarastonkokoelma.html ↩

13. "Bookstacks Access". The Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Retrieved 2015-07-01. ... access to this area is restricted to faculty and graduate students of the University of Illinois and those patrons with special access cards http://www.library.illinois.edu/learn/users/visitors.html#circ ↩

14. [8] University of Chicago's Special Collections https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/ ↩

15. "Mudd Library's Rules and Regulations". Princeton University. Archived from the original on 2015-04-08. Retrieved 2015-07-01. The collections are non-circulating and are used only in designated reading rooms. https://web.archive.org/web/20150408142547/http://www.princeton.edu/~mudd/research/rules.html ↩

16. [9] University at Buffalo's Collections policies page, including closed stacks policy. http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/specialcollections/about/policies.php ↩

17. [10] State of Arizona Research Library https://azlibrary.gov/starl ↩

18. [11] Reference to New York University's Tamiment Library using a closed stack system http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/collections.html ↩

19. "Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Accessing the Collections". Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. Retrieved 2022-09-17. https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/services/accessing-collections ↩

20. [12] Bruce Peel Special Collections Library at the University of Alberta https://bpsc.library.ualberta.ca/ ↩