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Library exhibits now on view explore the arts, science, culture, and technology

September 6, 2024
Be sure to catch these 7 library exhibits across campus, featuring a 1986 video game, WWII oral histories, 18th-century whaling logbooks, and more.
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Alumna joins the long search to unlock an enigmatic 15th-century manuscript

August 19, 2024
The investigations of Lisa Fagin Davis, Ph.D. ’93, into the Voynich Manuscript is featured in the Sept. 2024 issues of “The Atlantic” magazine.

Collections in the classroom: Students in new program share what they've discovered

August 14, 2024
Yale University’s new graduate certificate program opens up classroom walls and invites students into Yale Library Special Collections.
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Daggers, slides, maps, and more: Objects from 200-plus collections are new online

August 12, 2024
In just three months, 30,000-plus digitized objects have been added to Yale Library Digital Special Collections.
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University Archivist Michael Lotstein takes Yale’s history “very seriously”

August 9, 2024
University Archivist Michael Lotstein brings best practices to the preservation of Yale’s historical records.
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Scholars invited to apply for two residential library fellowships for 2025/2026

August 7, 2024
The application period is now open for the Research Fellowships for Graduate Students and the Walter O. Evans Fellowship for the Study of Slavery or Race.
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“In the First Person” marks 45 years of video interviews with Holocaust survivors

July 25, 2024
“In the First Person: The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocust Testimonies,” on view through Jan. 28, 2025, is the first large-scale exhibition of videotaped interviews with Holocaust witnesses and survivors.