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Opening access to complex texts: Cataloging the Ottoman-Turkish collection

July 12, 2023
Graduate student with unique language skills begins the long-awaited cataloging of treasures from the Ottoman Turkish collection.
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This summer, Senior Exhibit Fellow AJ Laird ’24 is tracking whaling vessels into the archive

July 8, 2023
AJ Laird ’24 is the recipient of the 2024 Senior Exhibit Fellowship, which offers the selected student an opportunity to create and curate an exhibit based on the topic of the senior essay.
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Films on film: Yale Film Archivist shares strategy for preserving and screening

July 7, 2023
Brian Meacham, film archivist, spoke about the Yale Film Archive at the British Film Institute film festival in London.
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Bass Library installs portrait of champion for the first women students of Yale College

July 3, 2023
Elga Wasserman is honored with a portrait in Bass Library for her role in supporting Yale’s transition to coeducation in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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New Haven, ornithology, and Mexican costume are subjects of award-winning essays

June 26, 2023
Three Kaplan Senior Essay Prizes awarded for essays based on research in special collections.
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Library Map Prizes awarded for creative visual presentations of scholarly research

June 12, 2023
Two prizewinning seniors illustrated their senior essays with maps they made themselves in support of their topic and thesis.

Yale launches LUX, a powerful new search tool for cross-collection exploration

June 10, 2023
LUX is Yale’s groundbreaking custom search tool for exploring the university’s extensive holdings of artistic, cultural, and scientific objects.