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Student curator Nancy Escalante: Finding community in the archives

February 16, 2023
Nancy Escalante—PhD student in American Studies, whose exhibit Empire and Resistance is in the Hanke Gallery—found her passion and a path to her life’s work in the archives.
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Joy Harjo wins Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry

February 14, 2023
Joy Harjo is the winner of Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, established in 1949 and awarded biennally by Yale University Library.
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Library invites suggestions for new titles for its Reading Resilience Project

February 11, 2023
Submit your recommendations—in person at Bass or online—to help build Yale Library’s growing collection of books by and about people of color.
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World-renowned conductor, alumnus John Mauceri, visits Yale Library for Book Talk

February 4, 2023
John Mauceri ’67, former professor and director of the Yale Symphony Orchestra, returns to campus March 8 for a Yale Library Book Talk to discuss The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century.
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Yale Library restructuring will unify special collections, increase access for researchers and visitors

February 3, 2023
The changes will enhance Beinecke Library’s leadership role for special collections across Yale Library.
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Fortunoff Video Archive featured in "End of Testimony?," a new exhibit in Vienna

February 1, 2023
Recordings and objects from the collection of Yale Library’s Fortunoff Video Archive of Holocaust Testimonies are on display in an international exhibit in Vienna.
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Beinecke Library adds earliest known printed text to permanent exhibit

January 25, 2023
A woodblock print of Buddhist prayers—dating from the eighth century—now sits alongside the fifteenth-century Gutenberg Bible, the first book-length work printed with movable time, in the Beinecke Library’s mezzanine exhibit.