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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.
Panelists for symposium on Resistance and Struggle Across Racial Regimes: Germany, South Africa, and the United States

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies Spring Symposia

June 15, 2023
Yale Library’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies has coordinated a number of incredible opportunities for learning and engagement this spring, spearheaded by Stephen Naron and Aya Marczyk.
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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).
Left: Sandrine Guérin, a woman in a striped dress, talks to a group of visitors standing in front of a long table with library materials on it.

Sandrine Guérin, Archivist

June 1, 2023
Beinecke Library archivist Sandrine Guérin organizes Modern European collections that document artistic and social movements as well as social thought and cultural criticism, with a focus on postwar Europe.

Shana Jackson, Senior Administrative Assistant

May 20, 2023
Shana Jackson is a Senior Administrative Assistant (SAA) for operations at the Yale Law School’s Lillian Goldman Law Library (LGLL). An active supporter of DEI efforts, Shana co-chairs the Law Library’s Anti-Racism Task Force and serves on the Library’s Staff Climate Survey Task Force.
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