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

April 1, 2025
A roundup of recent media coverage includes stories about Beinecke Library exhibitions, collections, and staff, and the work of Preservation and Conservation.

Eight international writers receive the 2025 Windham Campbell Prizes

March 25, 2025
The Windham-Campbell Prizes Festival, held on campus from Sept. 16 to Sept. 19, will celebrate the eight 2025 recipients and their prizewinning work.
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Senior Exhibit Fellow Anne Gross ’25 explores the psychological effects of media in new exhibition

March 24, 2025
The student-curated exhibition “SENSATION! Reported Bodies in 19th-Century American Media” opens April 28 in Hanke Gallery in Sterling Memorial Library. The exhibition draws on Beinecke Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, and Haas Arts Library collections.

Online events and video illuminate Islamic manuscripts collection and exhibition

March 10, 2025
Each of the three co-curators of “Taught by the Pen: The World of Islamic Manuscripts,” a new exhibition at Beinecke Library, will present an online talk this spring. The events are free and open to all with advance registration.

Yale Library awards 2 prizes honoring the highest achievement in American poetry

February 11, 2025
Yale Library awards literary prizes—including the newly established Patricia Cannon Willis Prize—to poets Arthur Sze and Major Jackson.
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A rare, potent object from special collections offers students a glimpse into ancient practices

January 22, 2025
Yale faculty member features an ancient tablet from the library’s special collections in her classical antiquity classes.
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Faculty are invited to teach with special collections: Proposals due Feb. 4

January 17, 2025
Faculty proposals for collections-intensive courses—six or more class sessions in Beinecke Library’s classrooms—are due Feb. 4.
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