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Sterling Library's L&B Room will reopen to students April 15

February 20, 2024

The Linonia and Brothers Reading Room has been closed since the beginning of the pandemic. Now, it’s being renovated to its original splendor.

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New exhibit in Hanke Gallery features sacred texts across faith traditions

February 21, 2024

“Copying Sacred Texts: A Spiritual Practice” is on view in Hanke Exhibition Gallery in Sterling Memorial Library through Aug. 11.

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Yale Library’s digital designer Monica Ong Reed named a 2024 USA Fellow

January 29, 2024

The library’s senior web and digital designer Monica Ong Reed is one of 50 artists named this year as a United States Artists Fellow.

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Library joins academic partners in a two-year project to assess Yale’s “AI-readiness”

November 9, 2023

The library, Poorvu Center, and Tsai CITY will participate in a two-year project to explore Yale’s best strategies for working with AI.

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Photo gallery: Gilmore Music Library staff celebrates 25th anniversary

November 8, 2023

Staff, friends, and Handsome Dan gathered to celebrate the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library’s 25th year in Sterling.

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Lewis Walpole Library’s political cartoons spark curiosity—and a conversation among collectors

November 1, 2023

On Nov. 16, print collectors and curators will meet in Sterling Memorial Library to discuss their collections of 18th- and early 19th-century British caricature and satiric prints.

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An elusive queen and a highway: Two student-curated exhibits open at Sterling Library

October 24, 2023

Two student curators—participants in the 2023–2024 Student Research at Yale Library program—opened their exhibits in Sterling Memorial Library, on view through April 21.

Then and now: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library turns 60 this October

October 19, 2023

After three years of innovative construction, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library opened to the public on October 14, 1963.

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Irving S. Gilmore Music Library celebrates 25 years at home in Sterling Library

October 12, 2023

In 1998, the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library moved from its crowded home in Sprague Hall into a soaring new space in Sterling Memorial Library.

Yale Film Archive wins 13th federal grant for preservation of significant films

October 11, 2023

The Yale Film Archive receives grant to preserve Shades , a 1960 fictional short about inmate rehabilitation.

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