In July, Yale Library users will gain access to 8.8 million more titles through the library’s membership in a consortium of institutions sharing collections.

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.

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 .