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Portrait from library collection featured in lavish Pulitzer Prize–winning opera “Omar”

May 15, 2023
Omar Ibn Said, author of the only known surviving Arabic-language slave narrative written in the United States—whose portrait and correspondence are now on view at the Beinecke—is the subject of a new American opera.
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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.