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Sheet of lead with ten inscribed lines of ancient Greek script
January 22, 2025
Yale faculty member features an ancient tablet from the library’s special collections in her classical antiquity classes.
Two men and two women sit at a long table looking at a long tapestry. A woman with long brown hair stands at the far end looking at the object.
January 17, 2025
Faculty proposals for collections-intensive courses—six or more class sessions in Beinecke Library’s classrooms—are due Feb. 4.
MLK in suit and tie waves from balcony to large crowd belong with Washington Monument in background
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.
18th-century colored drawing of man holding open box with four women and one man with magnifying glass looking on
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.
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.”
Snowy scene with red building in background and figure carrying a parasol walking away from viewer
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 .
Interior view of Beinecke Library showing central glassed in bookstacks and outside walls of translucent marble panels
December 17, 2024
The new $25,000 Willis Prize will recognize an outstanding volume of poetry published in the prior two years.