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Yale Library restructuring will unify special collections, increase access for researchers and visitors

February 3, 2023
The changes will enhance Beinecke Library’s leadership role for special collections across Yale Library.
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Beinecke, Haas, and Sterling presenting in-library exhibitions

September 5, 2021
Under current Yale COVID protocols, in-library exhibitioins are open to members of the campus with Yale ID access to the libraries. Others are invited to view Yale Library’s large and growing array of online exhibitions.
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Beinecke Library's Vinland Map determined to be a fake

September 2, 2021
Library conservators and conservation scientists at Yale have found compelling new evidence that the Beinecke Library’s Vinland Map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in twentieth-century ink.
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Film about James Baldwin, newly preserved by Yale Film Archive, will screen at N.Y. Film Festival

August 23, 2021
The short documentary , James Baldwin: From Another Place, was shot by Sedat Pakay MFA ’68 in 1970 when Baldwin was living in exile in Turkey.
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AUL for special collections and director of Beinecke Library named

July 16, 2021
Michelle Light will join Yale on October 1 as associate university librarian for special collections and director of the Beinecke Library, coming from the Library of Congress.
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Mei-mei Berssenbrugge wins Yale’s 2021 Bollingen Prize for Poetry

January 21, 2021
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge has been named the winner of Yale’s 2021 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry. The Bollingen Prize, established by Paul Mellon in 1949, is awarded biennially by the Yale University Library through the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library to an American poet for the best book published during the previous two years or for lifetime achievement in poetry. The prize includes a cash award of $165,000.