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Four illuminated 15th century tarot cards showing woman on horseback, male page, woman hovering over world, and two lovers under umbrella
June 25, 2026
Tarot cards and tarot-inspired materials from Yale Library Special Collections, dating from the 15th to the 20th centuries, are featured in a exhibition at the Morgan Library through Oct. 4.
Man in blue shirt and jacket with beard and moustache poses with young man in lavendar shirt holding open a book displaying book plate
April 23, 2026
Diallo played a central role in the creation of the online resource “Shining Light on Truth: Early Black Students at Yale,” a comprehensive effort to identify the Black students in Yale’s history.
Gridded collage of 8 portraits with 1 man and 3 woman in top half and 2 men and 2 women in bottom half, separated by blue and brown bands
April 9, 2026
The eight international literary artists—poets, playwrights, fiction, and nonfiction writers—who received the prestigious award this year will be at the Windham-Campbell Prizes Festival in the fall to share their work.
4 mounted black white photographs showing 8 men standing in front of car at top and three photos of men posing seated in cars with windows open
April 7, 2026
New collections and new materials in 25 subject areas now available to researchers through Archives at Yale.
March 30, 2026
The conversation with Director Michelle Light at Beinecke Library opens the two-day symposium, “Democracy, Civic Education, and the American Archive.”
Illuminated manuscript open on a blue pillow mount
January 29, 2026
On Jan. 29, Yale Library welcomed representatives of the Polish government to New Haven for the formal transfer of a liturgical manuscript known as the Cistercian Collectar from the collection of the Beinecke Library.
January 20, 2026
Local, national, and international media report on the library’s resources, exhibitions, staff, and community engagement efforts.