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In honor of Kenya Flash, library creates new residency position for early-career librarians

June 1, 2023
Entry-level career librarians are invited to apply for a new three-year residency established to honor beloved social sciences librarian Kenya Flash (1980–2021).
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Applebaum Award presented for senior essay on geriatric health care and U.S. policy

May 31, 2023
Accessing the library’s extensive collection of government materials, Sopie E. Edelstein ’23 wrote her winning essay about mental health care for the elderly in early 20th-century America.
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Students win prizes for essays on American and Western American history and culture

May 26, 2023
Faculty awards prizes to three Yale College seniors and a doctoral candidate for studies of American and Western American history and culture.
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Dig into history: Search the more than 140 years of Yale Daily News now online

May 24, 2023
The library’s historical archive of the nation’s oldest continuously published daily paper now contains nearly 24,000 back issues.
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Photo gallery: Congratulations to the Class of 2023!

May 23, 2023
Class of 2023 celebrates graduation day posing for photos on a beautiful spring day in front of and inside Sterling Library.
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Photo gallery: Celebrating library staff and 1,245 combined years of dedicated service

May 19, 2023
The annual Staff Appreciate Picnic gave everyone a chance to socialize and to celebrate the long service records of 82 library employees.
Digital map showing southern US--Florida to Texas--with coastline in blue and white dots on the black landmass. Legend shows that dots are Nursing Homes with Emergency Preparedness Deficiencies. Blue indicates 2 feet or more of inundation exposure.

PhD candidate named Yale’s EIP Student of the Year for innovative geospatial mapping

May 17, 2023
Natalia Festa works with Global Information Systems (GIS) to study emergency-preparedness risks to the elderly in nursing homes.