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Yale Library celebrates Quantum Week

April 5, 2022
From April 8 through April 14, Yale Library will celebrate Yale Quantum Week, partnering with the Yale Quantum Institute to host several special events and exhibits about quantum and science at libraries across campus.
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Beinecke will expand public exhibit hall hours beginning April 11

April 4, 2022
COVID-19 Library Update : Beginning April 11, the Beinecke Library exhibition hall will be open to the public Monday through Friday, 9 am-4:30 pm in addition to already ongoing weekend hours, Saturdays and Sundays, noon - 4 pm.
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Library special collections will welcome non-Yale researchers beginning April 11

April 4, 2022
Beginning April 11, Yale University Library will reopen its special collections reading rooms to non-Yale researchers who are fully vaccinated and boosted and have not traveled outside the U.S. within the prior 15 days.
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Librarian Jennifer Snow awarded ARL fellowship

March 31, 2022
Snow is program director for instruction and librarian for Anthropology, Sociology, and Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies at Marx Science and Social Science Library.
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Film Archive awarded Film Foundation grant to restore Kathleen Collins masterwork

March 18, 2022
The Yale Film Archive has received a grant to preserve Losing Ground , the 1982 masterwork of the late Kathleen Collins, a pioneering Black writer and filmmaker whose work was largely unseen for decades after her death in 1988 at the age of 46.
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In Memoriam: Anthony Riccio

February 23, 2022
Anthony Riccio, who retired in 2020 after 23 years at collections maintenance supervisor in Sterling Memorial Library, passed away on Jan. 16. He was a photographer, historian, and generous mentor to staff and students alike.
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New Book Talk launches with Debby Applegate's bio of a Jazz Age brothel owner

February 15, 2022
The first Yale Library Book Talk will feature historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Debby Applegate, author of Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age debut on March 2 at 4:30 pm. Online and open to all.