the ltl has acquired several private collections from scholars. as of july 2015, they include david bivin, alan crown, trude dothan, peter flint, florentino garcia-martinez, moshe goshen-gottstein, william w. hallo, robert lindsey, abraham malamat, carol & eric meyers, david owen, randall price, alan segal, and emanuel tov. these collections are maintained intact with most of them in the library’s main hall.