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Beinecke, Haas, and Sterling presenting in-library exhibitions

September 5, 2021
Under current Yale COVID protocols, in-library exhibitioins are open to members of the campus with Yale ID access to the libraries. Others are invited to view Yale Library’s large and growing array of online exhibitions.
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Sign up for introductory tours of Sterling, Bass, Marx and Beinecke libraries

September 3, 2021
Tours designed for new students will cover study spaces, navigating the book stacks, borrowing, research support, student jobs, exhibit curation opportunities, the history and architecture of the spaces, and more. Registration required.
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Beinecke Library's Vinland Map determined to be a fake

September 2, 2021
Library conservators and conservation scientists at Yale have found compelling new evidence that the Beinecke Library’s Vinland Map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in twentieth-century ink.
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Road Show: Travel Papers in American Literature now on view at Beinecke

September 1, 2021
An exhibition highlighting the work and voyages of writers including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, opened to the campus community Sept. 1
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Welcome back, students! Help us make history on Sept. 8

August 31, 2021
What excites you about being on campus? Stop by the table in front of Sterling Memorial Library on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2-4 pm, to write your answer on a postcard. Contribute to the University Archive and receive a Yale Library giveaway!
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Yale Library expands, enhances services for return to onsite teaching and learning

August 30, 2021
Yale University Library is adding, expanding, and adapting services to support students and faculty as they return to in-person teaching and learning this week.
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Film about James Baldwin, newly preserved by Yale Film Archive, will screen at N.Y. Film Festival

August 23, 2021
The short documentary , James Baldwin: From Another Place, was shot by Sedat Pakay MFA ’68 in 1970 when Baldwin was living in exile in Turkey.