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Mohamed Diallo ’26 reassembles the story of Yale’s early Black students with archival research and ArcGIS mapping

April 23, 2026

Diallo played a central role in the creation of the online resource “Shining Light on Truth: Early Black Students at Yale,” a comprehensive effort to identify the Black students in Yale’s history.

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Film Archive simplifies service model to enhance teaching and research support

April 16, 2026

Yale Film Archive has streamlined access to collections and facilities. Library users can now request materials online through Quicksearch and pick them up at any library’s service desk.

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Yale Library collections available for borrowing will effectively double in July

April 14, 2026

In July, Yale Library users will gain access to 8.8 million more titles through the library’s membership in a consortium of institutions sharing collections.

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Library honors Class of 2026 student employees with a celebration and special gift

May 4, 2026

Eighty-eight graduating student employees were celebrated at a end-of-year event, and favorite books inscribed with their names are now on the library’s shelves.

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Student curator follows the trail of a vanishing American orchid in new exhibition opening May 4

April 28, 2026

Curator Nithya Guthikonda ’26 tells the layered story in the exhibition “ Tracing the Rosebud Orchid: Botanical Illustration and Ecological Awareness in 18th- to 21st-Century America ,” on view through Oct. 25.

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These 2026 Windham-Campbell Prize winners will be on campus Sept. 15 to 18

April 9, 2026

The eight international literary artists—poets, playwrights, fiction, and nonfiction writers—who received the prestigious award this year will be at the Windham-Campbell Prizes Festival in the fall to share their work.

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New collections feature Caribbean and Chicano cultures, dance in New Haven, and born-digital Boswell

April 7, 2026

New collections and new materials in 25 subject areas now available to researchers through Archives at Yale.

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Yale Library is testing an AI-powered connection for deeper searching of library resources

March 31, 2026

Yale Library is testing an AI integration that could transform how students and researchers search for and surface books and other resources in the library’s vast catalog. The integration uses the model context protocol (MCP), a universal open standard for connecting AI helpers like Chat GPT or Claude to any data source—including, in this case, the highly curated bibliographic data of the library’s catalog.

David Ferriero, 10th U.S. Archivist, will be opening speaker at symposium on archives and democracy

March 30, 2026

The conversation with Director Michelle Light at Beinecke Library opens the two-day symposium, “Democracy, Civic Education, and the American Archive.”

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Newly donated medical historical collection documents the history of death photography and rituals

March 26, 2026

More than 1,000 postmortem and memorial photographs from the early 19th through the mid-20th century are now available for research and teaching in the Medical Historical Library of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. The collection documents American and some European death photography and rituals and includes related ephemera and objects, from a tombstone salesman’s kit to memorial cards .

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