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"Whaling Logbooks": The 2024 Senior Fellowship Exhibit opens April 29

April 23, 2024
For nearly two centuries, the coast of New England was home to the “Yankee” whaling industry. In Connecticut, the industry operated from ports in New London, Mystic, and New Haven. This exhibit—curated by AJ Laird ’24, this year’s senior exhibit fellow—features logbooks from the Sterling Library’s Manuscripts and Archives Whaling Logs Collection. Laird, who has firsthand experience as a deckhand on sailing vessels, also conducted research at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts and at the Portsmouth Athenaeum in New Hampshire. The Whaling Logs Collection During the early 19th and
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Student curator Molly Smith ’25 honors champion of Yale College women

April 18, 2024
Elga Ruth Wasserman, JD ’76, was a passionate advocate for the first classes of women enrolled in Yale College in the 1960’s and ’70s. A portrait of Wasserman, installed last year, hangs on the north wall in Bass Library. This spring, American Studies major Molly Smith ’25 has created a banner exhibit about the life and legacy of Wasserman, currently on view in Sterling Memorial Library. “In addition to her work on behalf of coeducation at Yale, Wasserman was also a chemist, attorney, feminist, and scholar,” Smith explained. “She is not well known by many students, and my goal with this

Call for applications: Yale College bibliophiles are eligible for cash prizes

February 7, 2024
Yale College sophomores and seniors, applications for the Adrian Van Sinderen Book Collecting Prize are due by 5 p.m. on Thurs., Feb. 22.
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Call for applications and nominations: Bass Library is growing its team of student mentors

January 19, 2024
The library invites student applications and faculty nominations for undergraduates to train as peer mentors to help fellow students strengthen their research skills.
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Apply by March 8 for summer fellowship: Library invites rising seniors to create an exhibition

December 5, 2023
Applications are due on Fri., March 8, for the Senior Exhibit Fellowship for Yale College juniors that begins this summer.
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An elusive queen and a highway: Two student-curated exhibits open at Sterling Library

October 24, 2023
Two student curators—participants in the 2023–2024 Student Research at Yale Library program—opened their exhibits in Sterling Memorial Library, on view through April 21.
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Photo gallery: Librarians give new students overview of library services and support

September 19, 2023
Members of the Class of 2027 filled the Commons during the Undergraduate Academic Fair to learn about the many opportunities available to them across campus.