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Sterling Library's L&B Room will reopen to students April 15

February 20, 2024

The Linonia and Brothers Reading Room has been closed since the beginning of the pandemic. Now, it’s being renovated to its original splendor.

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New exhibit in Hanke Gallery features sacred texts across faith traditions

February 21, 2024

“Copying Sacred Texts: A Spiritual Practice” is on view in Hanke Exhibition Gallery in Sterling Memorial Library through Aug. 11.

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Yale Library’s digital designer Monica Ong Reed named a 2024 USA Fellow

January 29, 2024

The library’s senior web and digital designer Monica Ong Reed is one of 50 artists named this year as a United States Artists Fellow.

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Beinecke Library's Vinland Map determined to be a fake

September 2, 2021

Library conservators and conservation scientists at Yale have found compelling new evidence that the Beinecke Library’s Vinland Map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in twentieth-century ink.

Road Show: Travel Papers in American Literature now on view at Beinecke

September 1, 2021

An exhibition highlighting the work and voyages of writers including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, opened to the campus community Sept. 1

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Welcome back, students! Help us make history on Sept. 8

August 31, 2021

What excites you about being on campus? Stop by the table in front of Sterling Memorial Library on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2-4 pm, to write your answer on a postcard. Contribute to the University Archive and receive a Yale Library giveaway!

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Yale Library expands, enhances services for return to onsite teaching and learning

August 30, 2021

Yale University Library is adding, expanding, and adapting services to support students and faculty as they return to in-person teaching and learning this week.

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Film about James Baldwin, newly preserved by Yale Film Archive, will screen at N.Y. Film Festival

August 23, 2021

The short documentary , James Baldwin: From Another Place, was shot by Sedat Pakay MFA ’68 in 1970 when Baldwin was living in exile in Turkey.

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New trial offers remote access to library e-resources through a single browser

August 16, 2021

Yale students, faculty and staff are invited to join a six-month trial of Lean Library Access for easier access to library e-resources from off-campus.

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Library seeks New Haven-area pandemic perspectives for historical archive

August 9, 2021

Yale Library invites Greater New Haven resident to submit personal reflections about the ongoing impact of COVID-19.

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