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Six new library exhibitions now on view

September 21, 2022
New Yale Library exhibitions—drawing on collections in the sciences, arts, and humanities—are now open to visitors at five library locations.
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Constitution and Citizenship Day at Yale Library

September 13, 2022
Yale Library—a designated federal repository since 1859—commemorates Constitution and Citizenship Day.
Six librarians posing for portrait, four women and one man, standing in front of wooden library door. The two women at left have short brown hair and wear blue tops; two shorter women at center stand on step below the others; on the right end is a man with a blue check, long-sleeve shirt. At center in back row is a woman with a pink cardigan and polka dot skirt..

Twenty librarians promoted

September 13, 2022
Promotions recognize achievement and growth in specialized knowledge, skills, leadership, and contributions to the profession.
Three men pose in front of metal bookcases lined with books. Man at left has reddish hair and wire glasses and wears a brown suit and paisley tie; man at center has black hair and dark rimmed glasses, white shirt, brown leather belt, and hands in pockets; man at right has grey hair and van dyke, with rimless glasses and short-sleeve blue, white and gray plaid shirt. All smile broadly.

Marx Library welcomes visiting librarian James Wong

September 13, 2022
A science librarian from Yale-NUS College in Singapore is spending the month with Yale Library colleagues.
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Extraordinary collection of early maps on display at the Beinecke Library

September 6, 2022
The World in Maps, 1400–1600, a new exhibition at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, presents a selection of the most impressive and historically important maps in the library’s collection from the late Medieval and Early Modern periods.
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Telling the stories of science: Rebecca Wessel ’24 explores digital narratives

September 2, 2022
Rebecca Wessel ’24 spent her summer as Marx Library’s climate change technologies fellow. After completing three data-driven, interactive projects—two of her own design—Wessel came away with critical new skills in her field and plenty of potential topics for her senior thesis.
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Award-winning film from library's Fortunoff Archive screened in festivals worldwide

August 24, 2022
“The Waltz,” an animated short by artist Yulia Ruditskaya, 2022 Laurel Vlock Fellow at the Fortunoff Video Archive, is based on a a poem by the Yiddish poet A. Lutzky.