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New trial offers remote access to library e-resources through a single browser

August 16, 2021
Yale students, faculty and staff are invited to join a six-month trial of Lean Library Access for easier access to library e-resources from off-campus.
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Library seeks New Haven-area pandemic perspectives for historical archive

August 9, 2021
Yale Library invites Greater New Haven resident to submit personal reflections about the ongoing impact of COVID-19.
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Pandemic access to e-books via HathiTrust will end Aug. 16

July 30, 2021
A key pandemic response—expanded online access to digitized books and journals through HathiTrust—will end with the fall return-to-campus.
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Introducing a new Yale Library website

July 21, 2021
You are looking at the first stage of an iterative redesign of Yale Library’s web presence. We welcome your feedback via the Contact Our Web Team link in the (new) page footer.
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AUL for special collections and director of Beinecke Library named

July 16, 2021
Michelle Light will join Yale on October 1 as associate university librarian for special collections and director of the Beinecke Library, coming from the Library of Congress.
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Femi Cadmus is new director of Yale Law Library

July 15, 2021
Her three-decade professional career spans both academic and law firm libraries. She has taught legal research and analysis, and technology in law practice to students and attorneys.
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We Were Always Here: Celebrating All Women at Yale

July 9, 2021
Payroll records, travel photos, diaries and memoirs are just some of the primary sources featured in this online exhibition that presents a chronology of women’s presence at Yale by honoring women—named and unnamed—whose heroic efforts have enriched the university.