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Five new and nine expanded collections now available for researchers

November 10, 2025

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Beinecke Library acquires Sylvia Plath family papers

November 7, 2025

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Music Library exhibition celebrates Yale’s first professor of jazz as oral historian

November 4, 2025

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“Your Yale” highlights the teamwork and planning behind major library technology upgrade

October 23, 2025

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