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black and white photo shows shirtless woman with short hair and the words "Title IX" written on her back. She is facing away from camera, holding papers in her hand. To her right and looking off and to the right is a woman wearing a suit and open necked blouse. Blurred backs of heads of unidentified individuals are in the foreground and on the wall hangs a poster for Yale Women's Soccer.

Online exhibit documents triumphs and trials of Yale’s first women athletes

November 9, 2022
By 1979, Yale had 13 women’s varsity teams—and they struggled for their share of resources and support.
Colorized photograph of two men looking at camera. One on left wears blue satin suit with white shirt and blue satin tie sitting on a simple white couch with one arm draped across the back support and the other hand at his chin. He has dark short curly hair and a goatee. The other has short cropped hair, plastic rimmed glasses and green shirt with brown shoulder patches. He rests his chin on both hands. There's a silver linked bracelet on his right wrist.

New voices added to Yale Library's collection of music oral histories

November 8, 2022
Two gospel artists—Donald Lawrence and Vincent Bohanan—will be filmed in interviews this month.
Desert scene showing horizon with wooden sign reading "Rio Grande" and a blue 1950s Chevrolet with open door and a man in short sleeve shirt with back to camera looking out at scene from back of the car.

Yale Film Archive seeks alumni home movies

October 14, 2022
“Home movies are unique by definition,” says Managing Archivist Brian Meacham—and he would like to have more in the Yale Film Archive’s collection.
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Model Research Collection showcases lyric poetry at Bass Library

October 10, 2022
Lyric Thinking: Poetry in the World, the 2022-23 Model Research Collection in Bass Library, features more than 1,000 volumes from Yale Library collections. The collection explores lyric poems across diverse languages, communities, and spaces throughout the historical record.
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Library helps add new voices to Music and the Black Church program

October 3, 2022
Yale Library’s Oral History of American Music grows its collection of interviews with gospel greats.
Yellowed globe, with navigation lines across its surface showing land and water, dating from circa 1621, in a wooden stand with a metal semicircular band spanning the top hemisphere

Extraordinary collection of early maps on display at the Beinecke Library

September 6, 2022
The World in Maps, 1400–1600, a new exhibition at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, presents a selection of the most impressive and historically important maps in the library’s collection from the late Medieval and Early Modern periods.
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New DHLab manager helps researchers explore “different and possibly conflicting realities”

August 26, 2022
Kayla Shipp joined Yale Library on Aug. 1 as the Digital Humanities Lab program manager.