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4 mounted black white photographs showing 8 men standing in front of car at top and three photos of men posing seated in cars with windows open

New collections feature Caribbean and Chicano cultures, dance in New Haven, and born-digital Boswell

April 7, 2026
New collections and new materials in 25 subject areas now available to researchers through Archives at Yale.
Archival photo of man in suit with glasses at desk reading papers, with bookshelves behind, Written at edge is "Return to Carl Purington Rollins, Yale University Press"

Carl P. Rollins, Yale’s first University Printer, celebrated with two April 1 events

March 18, 2026
On April 1, Carl Rollins will be featured in a pop-up exhibit in Haas Family Arts Library and a Yale Library Book Talk in Sterling Library.
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Yale Library invites grant proposals for research in medical historical collections

February 16, 2026
Applications are now being accepted for travel fellowships and grants to support research in the medical historical collections of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. The application deadline is April 26, 2026.
19th-century sepia tone photograph of woman seated on ground outside straw tepee holding infant in straw basket

Writers, photographers, explorers are among the subjects of 9 new collections now open to researchers

January 28, 2026
New collections and new materials in existing collections are now available to researchers through Archives at Yale .
Man with gray hair and wire-rimmed glasses wearing a salmon shirt under a dark suit jacket stands in front of marble columns and ornately painted ceiling.

New U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze is recent recipient of Yale’s Bollingen Prize

September 15, 2025
Arthur Sze has been named the 25th U.S. Poet Laureate for 2025-26 by the Library of Congress. In February he was the 54th recipient of Yale’s Bollingen Prize for American Poetry. His papers are at the Beinecke Library.
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Library celebrates creative bookmaking and makers with two new exhibitions at Beinecke

August 27, 2025
On Tuesday, Sept. 2, two new exhibitions featuring traditional and contemporary handmade books open at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.