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In honor of Kenya Flash, library creates new residency position for early-career librarians

June 1, 2023
Entry-level career librarians are invited to apply for a new three-year residency established to honor beloved social sciences librarian Kenya Flash (1980–2021).
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Sandrine Guérin, Archivist

June 1, 2023
Sandrine, archivist for the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, joined the library in August 2021 and is responsible for organizing and describing Modern European collections that document artistic and social movements as well as social thought and cultural criticism, with a focus on postwar Europe. She has a background in social science and her extensive experience in the cultural sector, and diversity, equity, and inclusion have remained core values in her personal and professional life. Sandrine has consistently applied a critical lens to examine and challenge institutional systems
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Portrait from library collection featured in lavish Pulitzer Prize–winning opera “Omar”

May 15, 2023
Omar Ibn Said, author of the only known surviving Arabic-language slave narrative written in the United States—whose portrait and correspondence are now on view at the Beinecke—is the subject of a new American opera.
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Student brings to light the life and times of Black gospel songwriter Roxie Moore

April 27, 2023
On Wed., May 3, Ambre Dromgoole (MAR ’17) will tell the story of Roxie Moore, one of the influential Black female musicians featured in Dromgoole’s PhD dissertation.
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Library to assist in creating portal for UK collections of Holocaust testimonies

April 25, 2023
As a member of a new international working group, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies will help gather the United Kingdom’s testimony collections.
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Clark Sisters add their stories to library’s collection of interviews with gospel greats

April 14, 2023
The First Ladies of Gospel add their voices to the Oral History of American Music Collection and the interdisciplinary program Music and the Black Church.
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Library staff supports young historians in Connecticut History Day regional contests

April 11, 2023
“I signed up to be a judge for Connecticut History Day because I saw it as a way to ‘give back’ to the New Haven community,” says librarian Roberta Dougherty.