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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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Free films: Yale Film Archive announces its spring/summer lineup of hits

May 8, 2023

Treasures from the Yale Film Archive continues its series into the summer months for free screenings of three more favorites.

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Graduating student workers honored at Sterling Library, with thanks for all they do

May 1, 2023

Barbara Rockenbach, Stephen F. Gates ’68 University Librarian, and staff librarians celebrated graduating student workers with an afternoon event and bookplates.

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Student brings to light the life and times of Black gospel songwriter Roxie Moore

April 27, 2023

On Wed., May 3, Ambre Dromgoole (MAR ’17) will tell the story of Roxie Moore, one of the influential Black female musicians featured in Dromgoole’s PhD dissertation.

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Library Fellows present lightning talks on paper, poetry, protest, and more

April 26, 2023

Six recipients of the Beinecke Library Research Fellowships shared with audience members a quick glimpse of what they had discovered while mining the archives.

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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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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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