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Sterling Memorial Library is the largest library on campus. It is built to resemble a gothic cathedral. When you go in the front doors, you are greeted by the huge arched main lobby. They even went so far as to make the circulation desk look like an altar. SML has a number of large, high-ceilinged reading rooms, my favorite of which is the Music Library. Behind the circulation desk is the entrance to the book stacks, which is a 15 story monolith that house the majority of the library's over 4 million volumes. The Stacks are pretty creepy actually, full of narrow shelves of books and a few desks here and there. I honestly thought that the Stacks and the main part of the library was all there was to it, but then one day some of my friends showed me another part of the library that I didn't know existed. There is a small 6-story portion of the library that had a number of smaller rooms and collections. The room where we decided to study in had a number of tables and couches,...