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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.

GIS librarian Miriam Olivares among this year's Linda Lorimer Award recipients

November 12, 2025

Olivares, head of Geospatial Support Services at Yale Library and the Yale Center for Geospatial Solutions, received the award for her 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 to assist in creating portal for UK collections of Holocaust testimonies

April 25, 2023

As a member of a new international working group, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies will help gather the United Kingdom’s testimony collections.

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Yale Film Archive gains upgraded status in International Federation of Film Archives

April 25, 2023

The Yale Film Archive is now one of 94 world institutions with the “legitimate and primary” responsibility to preserve an original moving image collection.

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Seniors, submit your essay to win one of these three library prizes

April 24, 2023

Submit by May 1 and May 10 to win library prizes for oustanding senior essays based on research in Yale Library’s special collections.

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The library's top-ten-most-popular digital objects of 2023—so far

April 24, 2023

A cryptic manuscript, a seafarer’s journal, tarot cards, and a rare copy of a literary journal are among the library’s digitized objects that users most want to see.

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Clark Sisters add their stories to library’s collection of interviews with gospel greats

April 14, 2023

The First Ladies of Gospel add their voices to the Oral History of American Music Collection and the interdisciplinary program Music and the Black Church.

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Library staff supports young historians in Connecticut History Day regional contests

April 11, 2023

“I signed up to be a judge for Connecticut History Day because I saw it as a way to ‘give back’ to the New Haven community,” says librarian Roberta Dougherty.

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Eight writers awarded the 2023 Windham Campbell Prize for literary excellence

April 5, 2023

Now in its tenth year, the prestigious prize awards eight more poets, playwrights, fiction and nonfiction writers in recognition of their achievements.

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