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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 April 8 conversation at Beinecke Library will open the two-day symposium, “Democracy, Civic Education, and the American Archive.” On April 9 there will be round-table discussions at Sterling Library with Ferriero and other experts and leaders in the field of archival science and management.
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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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Class of 2026 invited to submit senior essays for library prizes by April 13 and April 29

March 23, 2026
Yale College seniors can win cash and publication of their senior essays through the library’s three award opportunities: the Kaplan, Map, and Applebaum prizes.
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Carl P. Rollins, Yale’s first University Printer, celebrated with two April 1 events

March 18, 2026
On April 1, Carl Rollins will be featured in a pop-up exhibit in Haas Family Arts Library and a Yale Library Book Talk in Sterling Library.
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