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October 12, 2021
Yale Arts Library's trial access to Artforum Archive runs through November 11, 2021. Once you’ve tried the database, please fill out the trial feedback form. Responses from the Yale community will help inform the library’s decision whether to purchase this resource.   Artforum Archive provides...
September 15, 2021
Part of the 50WomenAtYale150, this exhibition highlights works by women who graduated from the Graphic Design program at Yale School of Art. Like all the school’s programs, Graphic Design—the first graduate program in graphic design in the United States—has been coeducational since its founding,...
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July 15, 2021
Due to scheduled maintenance of the Yale network, all Yale Library websites and online resources will be offline from around 9 pm on Saturday, July 17, until midmorning on Sunday, July 18. We regret any inconvenience to our patrons.  The shutdown of library resources is part of a planned...
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July 15, 2021
Michelle Light has been appointed as the new Associate University Librarian for Special Collections and Director of the Beinecke Library, effective October 1, 2021. The appointment was announced today by Barbara Rockenbach, Stephen F. Gates '68 University Librarian. Light comes to Yale University...
A black and white photograph of Yale art students standing at easels paitning a live model
July 7, 2021
This online exhibition presents a chronology of the presence of women at Yale by honoring those—named and unnamed, seen and unseen—whose heroic efforts have contributed to and enriched the university. For centuries—and mostly unrecognized in supportive roles—the traces of women’s contributions to...
Library staff with books carts and racks of bagged library material in Sterling Library nave
July 2, 2021
Goodbye, contactless pickup! Hello, Sterling hold shelf!   On July 1, Sterling Memorial Library operations staff moved library materials from the contactless pickup racks in the Sterling Memorial Library nave to the hold shelf inside the Sterling stacks. An enduring visual of the library’s pandemic...
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June 30, 2021
Approximately 40 Yale librarians, archivists, and curators have joined forces to nominate objects for an exhibition that will exemplify the diversity of the library’s special collections and illuminate how primary sources inspire exploration and discovery. With the organizing concepts of “points of...

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