The Field Room, also known by its full name, the Charles and Frances Field Room, is located on the second floor of the Bing Wing, directly across the Grand Stair from the Munger Rotunda. The Field Room is a proctored reading room that houses Special Collections and University Archives. This light-filled space, with its thirty-foot high ceiling and huge, west-facing windows is named in honor of Charles D. Field and Frances K. Field, whose long-standing generosity and commitment to the Stanford University Libraries has contributed to its restoration.

Charles and Frances Field also endowed a curatorship within the Special Collections department in 1985; Charles Field endowed funds to be used for the maintenance of the Field Room that same year; and in 1994, Frances Field provided funding to assure the housing of the Field Hemingway Collection. In 1978, Charles and Frances endowed the Field Family Book Fund in American and British History.

PHOTO TOUR OF RESTORATION