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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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Library Walking Tour introduces new students to Yale’s many libraries, collections, and services

September 14, 2023

Yale Library Walking Tour offers incoming students a chance to learn about Yale’s many libraries and library resources—and a chance to win a private study space for the fall semester.

Photo gallery: Library welcomes new Yale faculty members

September 11, 2023

The library hosted an orientation event to introduce new faculty members to the library and the many staff and services available to support them and their students.

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Library celebrates Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, 2023

September 7, 2023

This month, Yale Library offers workshops and resources to celebrate Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, Sept. 17

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Rare collection of recordings by Anthony Braxton enters library's digital collections

September 7, 2023

Library partnership with Tri-Centric Foundation ensures worldwide access to hundreds of digitized recordings made by composer-musician Anthony Braxton.

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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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