Media outlets take notice of Yale Library staff achievements, programs, and exhibitions

Local, national, student, and international media report on the activities of Yale Library staff and on the library’s resources, programs, exhibitions, and events. Login access or subscription required for some links.

March 10

Christine McCarthy, the library’s director of Preservation and Conservation, was one of the experts interviewed for the article “It’s Time to Clean Your Books,” published in the “Wirecutter” section of “The New York Times.”

March 6
“Beinecke Library’s Islamic Manuscripts on Full Display for the First Time Ever,” by “Yale Daily News” staff reporter Alex Geldzahler, features the exhibition “Taught by the Pen: The World of Islamic Manuscripts,” on view through Aug. 10 at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. An audio version of the article’s text is also provided.

March 2 
“The Moscow Times” published a review of the play “Insulted. Belarus,” by playwright Andrei Kureichik. Kureichik is a 2025 artist-in-residence with the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. His play “The Empty Shell of War” premiered at Yale’s Slifka Center in January 2025. “Yale News” also published an article featuring Kureichik and the other two 2025 Fortunoff Video Archive artists-in-residence on Jan. 17.

February 28 
To announce the opening of the new exhibition “Taught by the Pen: The World of Islamic Manuscripts,” reporter Dan Mims posted a blog entry in the “Daily Nutmeg” titled “Flourishes of the Pen,” which featured a series of photographs of some of the many illuminated objects on view at Beinecke Library.

December 18, 2024
Jae Rossman, associate director of Special Collections Instruction and Research Services at Beinecke Library, was interviewed about her new book “Access to Special Collections and Archives: Bridging Theory and Practice” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024). An audio recording of the interview with Jen Hoyer, Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology, is available alongside a brief book review on the New Books Network site.

September 6, 2024

Melissa Barton, curator of Drama and Prose for the Yale Collection of American Literature, was quoted in “Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Harlem Renaissance Star Plagued by Misfortune,” an obituary in the “Overlooked No More” series published by “The New York Times.” The papers of Harlem Renaissance poet and artist Gwendolyn Bennett (1902–1981) are at Beinecke Library.

—Deborah Cannarella