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Library helps add new voices to Music and the Black Church program

October 3, 2022
Yale Library’s Oral History of American Music grows its collection of interviews with gospel greats.
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Library’s EaaSI program preserves digital data in deep freeze, Norway

September 27, 2022
Yale Library makes its first contribution to the Arctic World Archive, “a safe repository for world memory.”
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Eight must-see library exhibitions now on view

September 21, 2022
Eight Yale Library exhibitions—drawing on collections in the sciences, arts, and humanities—are now open to visitors at six 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.
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Twenty librarians promoted

September 13, 2022
Promotions recognize achievement and growth in specialized knowledge, skills, leadership, and contributions to the profession.
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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.