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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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Yale Library honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with in-person and online exhibits

January 13, 2025
Visit Sterling Memorial Library through February and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library on Jan. 19 to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.
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Final weeks: See these 3 library exhibits before they close this month

January 6, 2025
Three exhibitions scheduled to end in January draw on Yale Library’s varied collections to explore very different topics: the videotaped testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses, the symbolism of pearls in 18th-century imagery, and the aesthetic potential of representing data as art.

Librarian’s interactive exhibition receives high praise from local press

January 6, 2025
In his review of “Remembering ‘Amnesia’: Rebooting the First Computerized Novel,” Dan Mims of the “Daily Nutmeg” calls the exhibition “an experience you won‘t soon forget.”
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Library celebrates the season with painted lantern slide in Digital Collections

December 19, 2024
The thousands of lantern slides in the library’s collections—including this one—are available to view in Yale Library Digital Collections .
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Yale Library announces new literary prize for American poetry

December 17, 2024
The new $25,000 Willis Prize will recognize an outstanding volume of poetry published in the prior two years.

Library hosts Jan. 14 presentation for instructors on new AI research tool and funding

December 10, 2024
All Yale course instructors are invited to a demonstration of a beta version of a new AI tool for researchers. Pre-register for the Jan. 14 online session.
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