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Library seeks New Haven-area pandemic perspectives for historical archive

August 9, 2021
Yale Library invites Greater New Haven resident to submit personal reflections about the ongoing impact of COVID-19.
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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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We Were Always Here: Celebrating All Women at Yale

July 9, 2021
Payroll records, travel photos, diaries and memoirs are just some of the primary sources featured in this online exhibition that presents a chronology of women’s presence at Yale by honoring women—named and unnamed—whose heroic efforts have enriched the university.
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First Hanke Gallery exhibition to highlight primary sources

June 30, 2021
More than 40 Yale librarians, archivists, and curators have pooled their expertise to select rare and unique objects from library collections for the new gallery’s inaugural exhibition.
Photo of plastic spades and a bucket in a sand box.

Library offers test environment for software emulation technology

June 23, 2021
The online “sandbox” deploys emulation technology developed by the library’s digital preservation team to unlock resources from old software, CD-ROMs, or computer files.
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Library wins grant to preserve first film by an undergrad woman at Yale

June 17, 2021
Film director and screenwriter Alexis Krasilovsky ’71—a member of Yale’s first coed graduating class —interviewed Andy Warhol and other avant-garde artists for her 1971 film, End of the Art World .
Yale Daily News issue dated February 25, 1954

Gift funds expanded access to Yale Daily News historical archives

May 25, 2021
Almost a century and a half of the Yale Daily News (YDN), the nation’s oldest continuously published college daily, will soon be fully accessible to researchers online, thanks to a $500,000 gift from an anonymous Yale College graduate and former YDN reporter. The gift will allow the library to finish digitizing past copies of the YDN since its founding in 1878 and—through the launch of a new digital platform—make it easier for researchers to search and find materials in the YDN Historical Archive .