Library News

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

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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.

Library wins grant to preserve first film by an undergrad woman at Yale

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June 17, 2021

Film director and screenwriter Alexis Krasilovsky ’71—a member of Yale’s first coed graduating class —interviewed Andy Warhol and other avant-garde artists for her 1971 film, End of the Art World.

Yale Library eliminates fees for Yale authors publishing in PLOS

February 23, 2021

Yale University Library has signed two innovative agreements that will allow Yale-affiliated authors to publish in any PLOS open access journal without paying article processing charges (APCs).

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Register for the Windham-Campbell Virtual Festival

September 20, 2021

The Windham-Campbell Virtual Festival presents a series of live and on-demand events by the 2021 prize recipients. A one-time, online registration gives free access to all of the events including the closing keynote address by United States poet laureate Joy Harjo.

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Library events and resources for Sept. 17 Constitution and Citizenship Day

September 15, 2021

Yale University Library and the Lillian Goldman Law Library are co-hosting two events and offering a range of resources to celebrate Constitution and Citizenship Day which is recognized each year on September 17.

View the September issue

September 10, 2021

View the September issue of Nota Bene featuring stories about a revealing analysis of the controversial Vinland Map and the public viewing of a library-preserved film about James Baldwin, as well as upcoming library events and exhibitions.

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Visit a Yale Library exhibition

September 5, 2021

With the beginning of a new school year and the return to on-campus learning, several library locations are offering new exhibitions that showcase the breadth of the library’s collections and resources.

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Sign up for a librarian-led tour of Sterling and Bass libraries

September 3, 2021

Tours designed for new students will cover study spaces, navigating the book stacks, borrowing, research support, student jobs, exhibit curation opportunities, and the library’s history and architecture. Registration required.

Beinecke Library's Vinland Map determined to be a fake

September 2, 2021

Library conservators and conservation scientists at Yale have found compelling new evidence that the Beinecke Library’s Vinland Map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in twentieth-century ink.

Road Show: Travel Papers in American Literature now on view at Beinecke

September 1, 2021

An exhibition highlighting the work and voyages of writers including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, opened to the campus community Sept. 1

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