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Beinecke Library acquires Sylvia Plath family papers

November 7, 2025

The archive offers previously inaccessible resources and new insights into the life and work of a beloved American poet. The materials will be available for use at Beinecke Library in early December.

Terry Dagradi and Miriam Olivares are honored with Linda Lorimer Award

November 12, 2025

Dagradi, the Cushing Center Coordinator, and Olivares, head of Geospatial Support Services, received the awards for their distinguished service.

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Music Library exhibition celebrates Yale’s first professor of jazz as oral historian

November 4, 2025

“Willie Ruff: In Jazz and in the World,” is on view in the Gilmore Music Library corridor through March 15.

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Library and Yale Quantum Institute celebrate World Quantum Week

April 14, 2024

Celebrate World Quantum Day (April 14) with a month of special events and exhibits hosted by Yale Library and the Yale Quantum Institute.

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Library Shelving Facility offers final spring student tour on April 18

April 9, 2024

The Yale Library Shelving Facility invites students to take an hour-long tour of the storage facility rarely open to visitors.

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Happy 93rd birthday, Sterling Memorial Library

April 9, 2024

Sterling Memorial Library, named for benefactor John William Sterling and designed by architect James Gamble Rogers, was dedicated on April 11, 1931.

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"Whaling Logbooks": The 2024 Senior Fellowship Exhibit traces maritime history

April 6, 2024

Curated by AJ Laird, the exhibition features 19th- and 20th-century mariners’ logbooks, which documented every aspect of sea voyages as they unfolded and reveal the complex world of the whaling industry.

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Yale Library invites students to submit senior essays for three annual prizes

April 2, 2024

Yale College seniors can win prize money and publication for senior essays or projects based on research in Yale Library’s special collections.

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New Yale Library Miles Hoffman Concert Series opens April 19, 2024

April 2, 2024

Sponsored by the Gilmore Music Library, the new annual series honors noted violinist and classical music commentator Miles Hoffman ’73.

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Yale Library acquires historic video interviews with leading musicians

April 1, 2024

More than 250 interviews recorded for NewMusicBox between 1999 and 2020 will be digitized and made freely avaialable to researchers

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