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June 23, 2015
Wednesday, June 24, 10:00am, Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall The papers of James Boswell and Benjamin Franklin, two intellectual giants of the 18th century, are being edited & published by editorial teams based right here in Sterling Memorial Library! Gordon Turnbull (General Editor,...
June 12, 2015
With the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University, the Beinecke Library has digitized its collection of Jonathan Edwards, which documents the life and work of one of the foremost early American theologians and philosophers. The...
June 10, 2015
The Yale University Library is delighted to introduce Quicksearch – an online tool that unites several search services under one discovery interface. Quicksearch was built in collaboration with other university libraries using an open source system called Blacklight. The services initially targeted...
June 8, 2015
Following extensive reviews into ways to improve access to and care of the Yale University Library’s cartographic resources, library staff have begun transferring the collection of pre-1900 sheet maps currently housed in the Map Department on the 7th floor of Sterling Memorial Library to the...
June 8, 2015
The Yale University Library has recently joined the Open Library of Humanities' (OLH) Library Partnership Subsidy system. The partnership will offer the Yale community, and scholars worldwide, greater access to high quality, open access publications in the humanities. Dr. Martin Paul Eve, a founder...
June 2, 2015
A new collaboration between the Yale Department of Linguistics and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has resulted in an innovative approach to teaching students how to master the field methods used in linguistic research. Typically, linguistic fieldwork is conducted verbally between a...
June 2, 2015
Congratulations to the winners of this year's Harvey M. Applebaum award, which is conferred on a Yale College senior for an outstanding essay based on research in the Yale Library's government documents collections. The first prize ($500) was awarded to Anirudh Sivaram (Calhoun) for an essay on The...

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