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Good news, movie fans! See 21 free films through December

August 27, 2024
Free film screenings of an assortment of award-winning and notable films run nearly every week from August to December.
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The Yale Film Archive receives its 14th national grant for film preservation

August 21, 2024
The Yale Film Archive’s 14th National Film Preservation Foundation grant will enable the preservation of two short films by Sheldon Renan, Class of 1963.
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Alumna joins the long search to unlock an enigmatic 15th-century manuscript

August 19, 2024
The investigations of Lisa Fagin Davis, Ph.D. ’93, into the Voynich Manuscript is featured in the Sept. 2024 issues of “The Atlantic” magazine.
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Games in the Attic: Sterling bookstacks inspire a student’s art—and evolution

August 15, 2024
In her first semester at Yale, Ella White ’27 gravitated toward the Sterling Library bookstacks for work, study, and reflection. The stacks inspired her first art collection and an interactive art exhibit among the bookshelves.

Collections in the classroom: Students in new program share what they've discovered

August 14, 2024
Yale University’s new graduate certificate program opens up classroom walls and invites students into Yale Library Special Collections.
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Welcome to Yale! Library offers tours, events, and resources for new students

August 13, 2024
Yale Library is rolling out the welcome mat for new students with library tours, an academic resource fair, and an opportunity for one student to win their own private study space in Bass Library for a semester.
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Scholars invited to apply for two residential library fellowships for 2025/2026

August 7, 2024
The application period is now open for the Research Fellowships for Graduate Students and the Walter O. Evans Fellowship for the Study of Slavery or Race.