In 1924, famed professor Chauncey Brewster Tinker wrote that “there are three distinguishing marks of a university: a group of students, a corps of instructors, and a collection of books — and of these, the most important is the collection of books.” In this talk, Daniel Dollar will explain how collections, expertise, place and network are essential to an academic research library today, and discuss plans to revitalize Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library leading up to its 2031 centennial.