Charles E. Young Research Library

YRL supports graduate students and faculty with research-level collections in the humanities, social sciences, education, public affairs, government information and maps. The collections include materials in more than 100 languages, from books and journals to microforms and digital files.

The first-floor Reading Room holds a reference collection of about 28,000 volumes in the social sciences and humanities. You'll find encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, government documents and newspaper indexes. The Reading Room is open to all patrons.

YRL also houses the Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library, UCLA Library Special Collections, the UCLA Library Data Science Center, the Henry J. Bruman Map Collection and many of the central administrative units of the UCLA Library.

YRL also houses the Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library, UCLA Library Special Collections, the UCLA Library Data Science Center and the Henry J. Bruman Map Collection.

UCLA Library is an official government depository. It receives documents from the US federal government, the California state government, California municipalities, the United Nations and the European Union, all of which are free and open to the public.

History

Originally known as the "University Research Library" (URL), the building was designed by architect A. Quincy Jones (whose papers(opens in a new tab) are archived in UCLA Library Special Collections). The east half of the building opened to the public in 1964, but the library reached its full size when a second phase expansion was completed in 1970. In 1997, the building was renamed in honor of Charles E. Young(opens in a new tab), UCLA's longest-serving chancellor. Major internal renovations were completed in 2009 for the A-level and in 2011 for the first floor, based on designs by Perkins and Will(opens in a new tab).