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Four students at a round table pose smiling for the camera; in the background are ten people at other round tables and a video display on wall that reads "Class of 2023"

Graduating student workers honored at Sterling Library, with thanks for all they do

May 1, 2023

Barbara Rockenbach, Stephen F. Gates ’68 University Librarian, and staff librarians celebrated graduating student workers with an afternoon event and bookplates.

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Student brings to light the life and times of Black gospel songwriter Roxie Moore

April 27, 2023

On Wed., May 3, Ambre Dromgoole (MAR ’17) will tell the story of Roxie Moore, one of the influential Black female musicians featured in Dromgoole’s PhD dissertation.

COVID Library Updates

April 5, 2023

Sign up for borrowing privileges, view library exhibitions, and visit Yale Library’s public spaces. Visitors must comply with all Yale visitor policies.

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Students win prizes for essays on American and Western American history and culture

May 26, 2023

Faculty awards prizes to three Yale College seniors and a doctoral candidate for studies of American and Western American history and culture.

Dig into history: Search the more than 140 years of Yale Daily News now online

May 24, 2023

The library’s historical archive of the nation’s oldest continuously published daily paper now contains nearly 24,000 back issues.

male with graduation cap at center with two women in blue dresses to his right, two younger women to left, one in green dress, one in red, and a little girl in front of him with a white dress

Photo gallery: Congratulations to the Class of 2023!

May 23, 2023

Class of 2023 celebrates graduation day posing for photos on a beautiful spring day in front of and inside Sterling Library.

Two women and one man pose for camera. Woman at left wears blue shirt, man has blue cap and orange shirt and holds plate of food. Woman at far right wears multicolored sweater, sunglasses, and red hairband

Photo gallery: Celebrating library staff and 1,245 combined years of dedicated service

May 19, 2023

The annual Staff Appreciate Picnic gave everyone a chance to socialize and to celebrate the long service records of 82 library employees.

Digital map showing southern US--Florida to Texas--with coastline in blue and white dots on the black landmass. Legend shows that dots are Nursing Homes with Emergency Preparedness Deficiencies. Blue indicates 2 feet or more of inundation exposure.

PhD candidate named Yale’s EIP Student of the Year for innovative geospatial mapping

May 17, 2023

Geriatrician Natalia Festa recognized for her work with Global Information Systems (GIS) to study emergency-preparedness risks to the elderly in nursing homes.

Large painted card on left shows bald Japanese warrior wielding sword. At right four smaller playing cards each show a Japanese man in traditional dress. Each card has a red circle with a Japanese character at center.

Poisons, puppets, and more: 7 library exhibits you don't want to miss seeing this summer

May 17, 2023

Revolutionaries, murderers, Duke Ellington, and a dog puppet all make appearances in these in-person library exhibits.

Stage set with arabic script projected in white on black background. Man in Arabic dress stands with arms outstretched in front of animated image of a blue and yellow tree. Eleven people in long garments sit at his feet, six to his right and five to his left.

Portrait from library collection featured in lavish Pulitzer Prize–winning opera “Omar”

May 15, 2023

Omar Ibn Said, author of the only known surviving Arabic-language slave narrative written in the United States—whose portrait and correspondence are now on view at the Beinecke—is the subject of a new American opera.

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