Mark Bailey, head of the Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings (HSR) at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, oversees the nearly 280,000 historical sound recordings in Yale Library’s collection.
Three artists respond—with music, with illustration, and on the stage—to the powerful testimonies of Holocaust survivors preserved in the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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.