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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.
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The library's top-ten-most-popular digital objects of 2023—so far

April 24, 2023
A cryptic manuscript, a seafarer’s journal, tarot cards, and a rare copy of a literary journal are among the library’s digitized objects that users most want to see.
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Seniors, submit your essay to win one of these three library prizes

April 24, 2023
Submit by May 1 and May 10 to win library prizes for oustanding senior essays based on research in Yale Library’s special collections.
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Clark Sisters add their stories to library’s collection of interviews with gospel greats

April 14, 2023
The First Ladies of Gospel add their voices to the Oral History of American Music Collection and the interdisciplinary program Music and the Black Church.
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Library staff supports young historians in Connecticut History Day regional contests

April 11, 2023
“I signed up to be a judge for Connecticut History Day because I saw it as a way to ‘give back’ to the New Haven community,” says librarian Roberta Dougherty.