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Pandemic access to e-books via HathiTrust will end Aug. 16

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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.

Introducing a new Yale Library website

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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.

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.

Femi Cadmus is new director of Yale Law Library

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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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