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Yale Library honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with in-person and online exhibits

January 13, 2025

Visit Sterling Memorial Library through February and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library on Jan. 19 to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.

Kenya S. Flash Librarian Residency celebrates a first year filled with firsts

January 9, 2025

The new residency program, now in its second year, has set ambitious goals—both to advance library-wide DEIA efforts and to support the success of the selected Flash Resident—to fulfill the legacy of librarian Kenya Flash.

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Yale Library announces new literary prize for American poetry

December 17, 2024

The new $25,000 Willis Prize will recognize an outstanding volume of poetry published in the prior two years.

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LSF at 25: A visual history of Yale University Library Shelving Facility

April 25, 2024

Learn more in this visual story featuring video clips, an interactive timeline, and a narrative of the first 25 years by Michael DiMassa, who was the manager of LSF from 1998 to 2010.

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Student curator Molly Smith ’25 honors champion of Yale College women

April 18, 2024

Elga Ruth Wasserman, JD ’76, was a passionate advocate for the first classes of women enrolled in Yale College in the 1960’s and ’70s. Her portrait was installed in Bass Library last year.

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L&B is back! Sterling Memorial Library’s grand reading room reopens

April 16, 2024

The Linonia and Brothers (L&B) Room is open again after a long hiatus—and is better than ever.

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New Haven mayor appoints library's Michael Morand as city historian

April 15, 2024

Michael Morand, director of community engagement for Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, is only the city’s third official historian.

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Library and Yale Quantum Institute celebrate World Quantum Week

April 14, 2024

Celebrate World Quantum Day (April 14) with a month of special events and exhibits hosted by Yale Library and the Yale Quantum Institute.

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Library Shelving Facility offers final spring student tour on April 18

April 9, 2024

The Yale Library Shelving Facility invites students to take an hour-long tour of the storage facility rarely open to visitors.

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Happy 93rd birthday, Sterling Memorial Library

April 9, 2024

Sterling Memorial Library, named for benefactor John William Sterling and designed by architect James Gamble Rogers, was dedicated on April 11, 1931.

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