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Mei-mei Berssenbrugge wins Yale’s 2021 Bollingen Prize for Poetry

January 21, 2021
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge has been named the winner of Yale’s 2021 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry. The Bollingen Prize, established by Paul Mellon in 1949, is awarded biennially by the Yale University Library through the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library to an American poet for the best book published during the previous two years or for lifetime achievement in poetry. The prize includes a cash award of $165,000.
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Sterling Library 7th floor is new home for Film Archive

November 16, 2020
The renovated space, once home to Yale Library’s map collection, now has a screening room, viewing booths, video collections, offices, cold storage for film, and a film preservation suite to support conservation and research.
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Slide Show: Libraries reopen after COVID shutdown

September 8, 2020
In August, Yale libraries celebrated their reopening to students and faculty after a nearly six-month COVID-19 shutdown. View images of the big day.
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Introducing the Marx Science and Social Science Library

March 31, 2020
A four-generation Yale family has created a permanent endowment for Yale University Library’s Center for Science and Social Science Information, a gift that will support key university initiatives in the sciences and social sciences.