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Library Walking Tour introduces new students to Yale’s many libraries, collections, and services

September 14, 2023

Yale Library Walking Tour offers incoming students a chance to learn about Yale’s many libraries and library resources—and a chance to win a private study space for the fall semester.

Four book covers: "G-Man, J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century" by Beverly Gage with half photo of Hoover's face; Without Concealment, Without Compromise, with four old photos of black Civil War surgeons at bottom half; Thoreau's Axe, with a black snake on a grey background and white lettering; My Egypt Archive with nine piles of books in watercolor in a grid on yellow ground

Yale Library Book Talk series presents a great fall lineup of new nonfiction

September 6, 2023

A new season of Yale Library Book Talks presents authors discussing books about politics, history, cultural history, and biography.

COVID Library Updates

April 5, 2023

Sign up for borrowing privileges, view library exhibitions, and visit Yale Library’s public spaces. Visitors must comply with all Yale visitor policies.

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Sterling Library 7th floor is new home for Film Archive

November 16, 2020

The renovated space, once home to Yale Library’s map collection, now has a screening room, viewing booths, video collections, offices, cold storage for film, and a film preservation suite to support conservation and research.

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Slide Show: Libraries reopen after COVID shutdown

September 8, 2020

In August, Yale libraries celebrated their reopening to students and faculty after a nearly six-month COVID-19 shutdown. View images of the big day.

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Introducing the Marx Science and Social Science Library

March 31, 2020

A four-generation Yale family has created a permanent endowment for Yale University Library’s Center for Science and Social Science Information, a gift that will support key university initiatives in the sciences and social sciences.

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