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Fortunoff Archive for Holocaust Testimonies opens office in Vienna

November 16, 2021

The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies has established a temporary European outreach office at the headquarters of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute to expand awareness and research use of the Yale Library collection of Holocaust testimonies.

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Yale Library’s former Slavic studies librarian honored for distinguished service

November 16, 2021

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Tatjana Lorkovic, curator of Slavic and Eastern European collections from 1989 to 2014, led the reimagining of acquisitions and relationships with archives in the region.

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Sterling Library’s L&B Room, a campus gem, slated for renovation

November 10, 2021

A planned renovation of the iconic Linonia and Brothers Reading Room in Sterling Memorial Library aims to strip away decades of grime and modernize 90-year-old infrastructure.

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Trove of Gordon Parks “study sets” comes to Yale Library

November 9, 2021

Yale University Library’s Beinecke Library has acquired a collection of more than 200 prints by renowned American photographer Gordon Parks. The prints constitute one of the largest collections of the photographer’s work available for study in an institution.

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