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Fall 2022 events in library's Book Talk series

October 17, 2022
Meghan O’Rourke and R. F. Kuang present their new books in the next two sessions of the library’s Book Talk series
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Yale Film Archive seeks alumni home movies

October 14, 2022
“Home movies are unique by definition,” says Managing Archivist Brian Meacham—and he would like to have more in the Yale Film Archive’s collection.
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Model Research Collection showcases lyric poetry at Bass Library

October 10, 2022
Lyric Thinking: Poetry in the World, the 2022-23 Model Research Collection in Bass Library, features more than 1,000 volumes from Yale Library collections. The collection explores lyric poems across diverse languages, communities, and spaces throughout the historical record.
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Library helps add new voices to Music and the Black Church program

October 3, 2022
Yale Library’s Oral History of American Music grows its collection of interviews with gospel greats.
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Twenty librarians promoted

September 13, 2022
Promotions recognize achievement and growth in specialized knowledge, skills, leadership, and contributions to the profession.
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Marx Library welcomed visiting librarian James Wong

September 13, 2022
A science librarian from Yale-NUS College in Singapore spent September with Yale Library colleagues.
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Extraordinary collection of early maps on display at the Beinecke Library

September 6, 2022
The World in Maps, 1400–1600, a new exhibition at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, presents a selection of the most impressive and historically important maps in the library’s collection from the late Medieval and Early Modern periods.
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