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Yale Library’s digital designer Monica Ong Reed named a 2024 USA Fellow

January 29, 2024
The library’s senior web and digital designer Monica Ong Reed is one of 50 artists named this year as a United States Artists Fellow.
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Library exhibits and campus events celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day throughout January

January 19, 2024
Events continue throughout January to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday.
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Fortunoff Video Archive invites applicants to second summer program in Budapest

January 12, 2024
The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies hosts a second summer session in Budapest, Hungary, on the topic of “Holocaust Testimonies and Their Afterlives.” The session will run July 10–19.
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Rare collection of recordings by Anthony Braxton enters library's digital collections

September 7, 2023
Library partnership with Tri-Centric Foundation ensures worldwide access to hundreds of digitized recordings made by composer-musician Anthony Braxton.
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Library provides essential support to incarcerated students earning college degrees

August 21, 2023
Library staff and volunteers provide resources and services to students in the Yale Prison Education Initiative program.
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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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Bass Library installs portrait of champion for the first women students of Yale College

July 3, 2023
Elga Wasserman is honored with a portrait in Bass Library for her role in supporting Yale’s transition to coeducation in the late 1960s and early 1970s.