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From 80 to 54,000: Streaming access skyrockets visits to the OHAM collection

September 6, 2023
In the past year, online visitors have streamed the library’s OHAM materials at the rate of approximately1,500 streams each month.
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Library provides essential support to incarcerated students earning college degrees

August 21, 2023
Library staff and volunteers provide resources and services to students in the Yale Prison Education Initiative program.
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Barbara Rockenbach: “We have a responsibility to make our collections open to the world.”

August 17, 2023
Barbara Rockenbach, Stephen F. Gates ’68 University Librarian, shares her vision in an interview with ELI magazine.
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Library joins “For Humanity Illuminated” celebration of Yale’s cultural heritage collections

August 17, 2023
Yale Library joined the international “For Humanity Illuminated” conference to celebrate the university’s cultural heritage collections.
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Photo gallery: Library staff members line up for summertime treats

August 15, 2023
Yale Library’s annual ice cream social marks a farewell to summer and celebrates the start of the new academic year.
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Quantum theory and you: Curated collection traces ongoing evolution of computing power

August 8, 2023
Dr. Florian Carle, manager of the Yale Quantum Institute, traces how quantum theory has advanced—and continues to advance—the ways in which humans process information.
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Explore LUX: A powerful new tool for searching Yale’s cultural heritage collections

July 25, 2023
LUX: Yale Collections Discovery provides a new, powerful way to search the collections of libraries and museums across Yale University.