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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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Yale Library, Poorvu Center create new leadership role to further AI strategies and policies

May 8, 2025

Effective July 1, associate professor of English Ben Glaser will assume the new position of director of AI initiatives in the humanities.

Kirk Franklin, “king” of urban Gospel music, joins greats in the oral history collection

April 30, 2025

The Oral History of American Music (OHAM) collection adds a video interview with acclaimed artist, songwriter, and producer Kirk Franklin to the growing collection.

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Number of users of Yale Library Digital Collections steadily climbs

April 23, 2025

In 2024, 50 percent more users accessed digitized objects in the library’s special collections than in 2023, and the collection grew in size by more than 420 percent.

April 24: View a film begun by theater icon Lee Breuer in 1968 Paris—now finished by his son

April 22, 2025

The Yale screening of “Moi-même” on April 24 will be followed by a conversation with filmmaker Mojo Lorwin, Breuer’s son and eventual collaborator on the film. The Beinecke Library, home to Breuer’s papers, recently acquired the film’s original footage.

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