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First Hanke Gallery exhibition to highlight primary sources

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June 30, 2021

More than 40 Yale librarians, archivists, and curators have pooled their expertise to select rare and unique objects from library collections for the new gallery’s inaugural exhibition.

How Yale archives are preserving students' pandemic experiences

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May 24, 2021

University Archivist Michael Lotstein has reached out to document students’ experiences, thoughts, and feelings during the pandemic using surveys, websites, postcards, podcasts, and more.

Slide Show: Libraries reopen after COVID shutdown

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September 8, 2020

In August, Yale libraries celebrated their reopening to students and faculty after  a nearly six-month COVID-19 shutdown. View images of the big day. 

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

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.
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Introducing a new Yale Library website

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.
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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.
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Femi Cadmus is new director of Yale Law Library

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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We Were Always Here: Celebrating All Women at Yale

July 9, 2021
Payroll records, travel photos, diaries and memoirs are just some of the primary sources featured in this online exhibition that presents a chronology of women’s presence at Yale by honoring women—named and unnamed—whose heroic efforts have enriched the university.
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Library ends contact-free pickup, extends new mail service

July 2, 2021
As part of its COVID response, the library filled 44,784 requests for contactless pickups and 18,883 requests for books by mail in the past year.
A picture of fruit on a tree surrounded by Arabic calligraphy

First Hanke Gallery exhibition to highlight primary sources

June 30, 2021
More than 40 Yale librarians, archivists, and curators have pooled their expertise to select rare and unique objects from library collections for the new gallery’s inaugural exhibition.