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June 4, 2025
“Street Talk: Pamphlet Literature of the Nigerian Marketplace” is on view in the Hanke Exhibition Gallery in Sterling Memorial Library through Sept. 14.
May 30, 2025
On display are nearly 150 manuscripts and materials from the approximately 5,300 objects in the library’s collection of materials from the Islamic world.
Video screen shows woman with glasses playing violin next to text that reads "Dorothy DeLay"; alongside screen young woman in black top stands smiling next to woman with long red hair wearing black top and striped jacket
May 28, 2025
For her senior thesis, violinist Keeley Brooks ’25 documents the life and legacy of music educator Dorothy DeLay through interviews with former students and colleagues.
May 28, 2025
A rare early moving picture shows a Juneteenth 1925 celebration in Beaumont, Texas. The film is from a Beinecke Library collection of silent black and white films created by Rev. Solomon Sir Jones, a minister who created a rich film record of African American life primarily in Oklahoma in the 1920s.
May 12, 2025
“The Yale Scientific Magazine”—the nation’s oldest collegiate scientific publication—is now available on EliScholar, thanks to Matthew Blair ’26.
April 30, 2025
The Oral History of American Music (OHAM) collection adds a video interview with acclaimed artist, songwriter, and producer Kirk Franklin to the growing collection.
color print of seated bald man reading from book surrounded by five children in small wooden chairs; old man in background is handing a poster on the wall
April 23, 2025
In 2024, 50 percent more users accessed digitized objects in the library’s special collections than in 2023, and the collection grew in size by more than 420 percent.