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Opening access to complex texts: Cataloging the Ottoman-Turkish collection

July 12, 2023
Graduate student with unique language skills begins the long-awaited cataloging of treasures from the Ottoman Turkish collection.
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Senior Exhibit Fellow AJ Laird ’24 is tracking whaling vessels into the archive

July 8, 2023
AJ Laird ’24 is the recipient of the 2024 Senior Exhibit Fellowship, which offers the selected student an opportunity to create and curate an exhibit based on the topic of the senior essay.
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Films on film: Yale Film Archivist shares strategy for preserving and screening

July 7, 2023
Brian Meacham, film archivist, spoke about the Yale Film Archive at the British Film Institute film festival in London.
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New Haven, ornithology, and Mexican costume are subjects of award-winning essays

June 26, 2023
Three Kaplan Senior Essay Prizes awarded for essays based on research in special collections.

Yale launches LUX, a powerful new search tool for cross-collection exploration

June 10, 2023
LUX is Yale’s groundbreaking custom search tool for exploring the university’s extensive holdings of artistic, cultural, and scientific objects.
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Applebaum Award presented for senior essay on geriatric health care and U.S. policy

May 31, 2023
Accessing the library’s extensive collection of government materials, Sopie E. Edelstein ’23 wrote her winning essay about mental health care for the elderly in early 20th-century America.
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Students win prizes for essays on American and Western American history and culture

May 26, 2023
Faculty awards prizes to three Yale College seniors and a doctoral candidate for studies of American and Western American history and culture.