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February 11, 2025
Yale Library awards literary prizes—including the newly established Patricia Cannon Willis Prize—to poets Arthur Sze and Major Jackson.
Sheet of lead with ten inscribed lines of ancient Greek script
January 22, 2025
Yale faculty member features an ancient tablet from the library’s special collections in her classical antiquity classes.
Two men and two women sit at a long table looking at a long tapestry. A woman with long brown hair stands at the far end looking at the object.
January 17, 2025
Faculty proposals for collections-intensive courses—six or more class sessions in Beinecke Library’s classrooms—are due Feb. 4.
View of a vaulted ceiling with a star pattern at center and structural arcs radiating outward
January 15, 2025
“It’s Your Yale” article features descriptions and images of the impressive ceilings in five of the spaces within Sterling Memorial Library.
MLK in suit and tie waves from balcony to large crowd belong with Washington Monument in background
January 13, 2025
Visit Sterling Memorial Library through February and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library on Jan. 19 to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.
January 9, 2025
The new residency program, now in its second year, has set ambitious goals—both to advance library-wide DEIA efforts and to support the success of the selected Flash Resident—to fulfill the legacy of librarian Kenya Flash.
18th-century colored drawing of man holding open box with four women and one man with magnifying glass looking on
January 6, 2025
Three exhibitions scheduled to end in January draw on Yale Library’s varied collections to explore very different topics: the videotaped testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses, the symbolism of pearls in 18th-century imagery, and the aesthetic potential of representing data as art.