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Model Research Collection showcases lyric poetry at Bass Library

October 10, 2022
Lyric Thinking: Poetry in the World, the 2022-23 Model Research Collection in Bass Library, features more than 1,000 volumes from Yale Library collections. The collection explores lyric poems across diverse languages, communities, and spaces throughout the historical record.
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Library helps add new voices to Music and the Black Church program

October 3, 2022
Yale Library’s Oral History of American Music grows its collection of interviews with gospel greats.
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Extraordinary collection of early maps on display at the Beinecke Library

September 6, 2022
The World in Maps, 1400–1600, a new exhibition at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, presents a selection of the most impressive and historically important maps in the library’s collection from the late Medieval and Early Modern periods.
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New DHLab manager helps researchers explore “different and possibly conflicting realities”

August 26, 2022
Kayla Shipp joined Yale Library on Aug. 1 as the Digital Humanities Lab program manager.
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Award-winning film from library's Fortunoff Archive screened in festivals worldwide

August 24, 2022
“The Waltz,” an animated short by artist Yulia Ruditskaya, 2022 Laurel Vlock Fellow at the Fortunoff Video Archive, is based on a a poem by the Yiddish poet A. Lutzky.
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Mormons, music, theater, and celebrity: Library Fellows explore the archives

August 22, 2022
After a brief hiatus in the program, Yale Library welcomes the 2022–23 Special Collections Fellows. Six scholars recently presented their work in progress at the summer colloquium.
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Film Archive receives grant to preserve second film by pioneering Black director Kathleen Collins

August 18, 2022
The National Film Preservation Foundation grant will help preserve Collins’s short film, The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy. The archive is also preserving the director’s only feature film, Losing Ground .
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