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Clock face with wide silver rim with numbers with different-colored crayons and "Colorful Library" written in colorful crayons at center

Sterling Library inspires student's animated film—a love story

March 24, 2023
Yale School of Art graduate student Filip Birkner creates a short animated film inspired by his love of books, chairs, and Sterling Library.
Woman with long dark hair wearing dark rimmed glasses speaks before microphone.

Photo gallery: Hanke Gallery opens new exhibition "Empire and Resistance"

February 28, 2023
Visitors gathered for the opening of the new Hanke Gallery’s third exhibition, Empire and Resistance: Transisthmian Views of Central America .
Woman with curly dark hair and wire-rimmed glasses poses alongside windows, with hallway and arched entrance behind her. The photo is black and white. She wears a striped turtleneck and plaid coat.

Student curator Nancy Escalante: Finding community in the archives

February 16, 2023
Nancy Escalante—PhD student in American Studies, whose exhibit Empire and Resistance is in the Hanke Gallery—found her passion and a path to her life’s work in the archives.
Table layout of 10 white cards that show swatches of color, ranging from blues, yellows, purple. In front of the standing cards are open plastic cylinders containing ground pigments in a range of colors, used to make paints. At lower left is a white paper with some brush strokes of sample colors--four green, four purple, and one yellow

Hands-on learning: Three student curators explore color in theory and practice

November 14, 2022
An inspiring art history class—taught with objects from special collections—leads to a colorful exhibition curated by three classmates.
Three students pose before leaded glass gothic-style windows: man at far left has reddish hair and wears a blue hooded sweatshirt that reads in white lettering on front "Yale Education Studies"; the man at center has short dark hair and wears a round-neck shirt, black belt and black jeans and has his thumbs hooked into his front pockets; the short woman at right has curly black hair to her shoulders, wire-rimmed glasses, wearing a white turtle-neck and blue jeans

Quicksearch and beyond: Students teach students how to navigate library resources

November 3, 2022
Students are teaching their peers what they wished they had known sooner about navigating the library’s vast resources.
Tall young man with wavy brown hair, wearing wire-rimmed glasses, a blue shirt, white pants, and short necklace, stands next to small woman with dark hair, black and white flowered dress and red sweater. In the background are ornate wood-carved panels and they lean against a long, dark wood-carved surface that had once been the library's circulation desk..

Librarian helps Senior Exhibit Fellow navigate an unusual collection

September 9, 2022
Jessica Quagliaroli mentored Chucho Martinez Padres ’23 as he researched art historian George Kubler PhD ’40.
Screenshot that shows photo of Rachel Wessel at computer and three maps from her project Map of Life

Telling the stories of science: Rebecca Wessel ’24 explores digital narratives

September 2, 2022
Rebecca Wessel ’24 spent her summer as Marx Library’s climate change technologies fellow. After completing three data-driven, interactive projects—two of her own design—Wessel came away with critical new skills in her field and plenty of potential topics for her senior thesis.
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