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Yellowed globe, with navigation lines across its surface showing land and water, dating from circa 1621, in a wooden stand with a metal semicircular band spanning the top hemisphere

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.
Young woman with shoulder length dark hair wearing black collared shirt stands in front of book shelves showing books with covers facing out.

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.
Image from the animated film shows a series of brown buildings, outlined in black, with the tall shadows of three musicians projected against their facades. In the foreground a small figure in black clothing walks in front of the musician shadows that parade behind.

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.
In a color film still, three young men walk in a line across an overgrown field with trees in the background. The middle one is pushing a wheel barrow.

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 .
17 young male and female science students pose, wearing black t-shirts with white lettering that reads "Wright Laboratory"

Undergraduates explore Yale Library’s collection of great scientific works

August 12, 2022
Seventeen undergraduates, from Yale and beyond, visited Beinecke Library this summer to study selected works of eminent scientists of the 16th through 18th centuries.
Young man with sandy brown hair and large amber-framed glasses, waring a dark shirt and jacket, smiles broadly and poses in front of carved column in the exhibition corridor of Sterling Memorial. The small carved figure is of a crouched man reading a book, one page of which has the carved word "Joke."

Chucho Martinez Padres ’23 awarded Senior Exhibit Fellowship

June 13, 2022
For his Senior Exhibit Fellowship, Chucho Martinez Padres ‘23 will explore the methods of art historian George Kubler, PhD ‘40, scholar of Pre-Columbian America and Ibero-American Art.