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text image reads: Hanke Exhibition Gallery Points of Contact, Points of View: Asking Questions in Yale Library Special Collections
April 6, 2022
View the Curator Conversation about “Points of Contact, Points of View: Asking Questions in Yale Library Special Collections.” The opening exhibition of the new Hanke Gallery features more than 60 rare, fragile, and unique objects.
Book cover showing Alice in Wonderland on a banana peel with title of book: Bananaworld Quantum Mechanics for Primates
April 5, 2022
From April 8 through April 14, Yale Library will celebrate Yale Quantum Week, partnering with the Yale Quantum Institute to host several special events and exhibits about quantum and science at libraries across campus.
Film still of woman in purple print dress sitting on a couch, smiling at a man with in yellow T-shirt and overalls sitting next to her.
March 18, 2022
The Yale Film Archive has received a grant to preserve Losing Ground , the 1982 masterwork of the late Kathleen Collins, a pioneering Black writer and filmmaker whose work was largely unseen for decades after her death in 1988 at the age of 46.
Vintage black and white image of two policemen holding open the doors of prisoner transport vehicle while a woman in a light print dress  and dark beret steps out
February 15, 2022
The first Yale Library Book Talk will feature historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Debby Applegate, author of Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age debut on March 2 at 4:30 pm. Online and open to all.
An entrance with a sign reading WIENER WIESENTHAL INSTITUT FUR HOLOCAUST-STUDIEN (VWI)
November 16, 2021
The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies has established a temporary European outreach office at the headquarters of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute to expand awareness and research use of the Yale Library collection of Holocaust testimonies.
Woman in red dress and dark coat standing on a pier with water and blue sky behind her
November 16, 2021
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Tatjana Lorkovic, curator of Slavic and Eastern European collections from 1989 to 2014, led the reimagining of acquisitions and relationships with archives in the region.
Black man and children being  served at an ice cream stand under a sign reading "colored". A sign above another window reads "white" .
November 9, 2021
Yale University Library’s Beinecke Library has acquired a collection of more than 200 prints by renowned American photographer Gordon Parks. The prints constitute one of the largest collections of the photographer’s work available for study in an institution.