Blood, Tears and Samurai Love: A global collaboration uncovers a lost love story in a library manuscript

Scholars collaborating across three continents are deciphering a rare eighteenth-century Japanese manuscript at Yale University Library to reveal a tragic—and likely true—love story between two male samurai warriors. The ongoing project, now in its fourth year, has been documented in “Blood, Tears and Samurai Love,” a video created by Haruko Nakamura, Yale’s librarian of Japanese Studies and Dylan Siegel (MA ’21) a graduate student in East Asian Studies.

Six 2019 grads awarded library prizes for outstanding research and writing

May 3, 2019

Yale University Library has selected six 2019 graduates to receive this year’s library prizes for outstanding senior essays. The prizes, awarded in three categories,  will be presented to the students at their residential college graduation ceremonies on May 20. The winning essays will be published online in Eli Scholar.

Eight library exhibits to see this spring and summer

Explore the new journalism of Janet Malcolm, the origins of celebrity party photos, biblical art books, pioneering women in music at Yale, how to conserve your family treasures, Supreme Court bobbleheads, the beauty of rare book bindings, and the history of evolutionary biology at Yale in eight exhibitions at Yale's libraries this spring and summer. All are free and open to the public. 

The Courtroom, the Couch, and the Archive: Janet Malcolm's Journalism

Five free library exhibits to see before they close in December 2018

Five exhibits closing this month draw on Yale’s extraordinary library collections to explore a range of different subjects: political protest in 1968, artistic representations of numbers, early law books, photography of the contemporary West, and the music of World War I. All are free and open to the public. See below for more details, including exhibit end dates. Check library hours here.

University Librarian Susan Gibbons named president of the Association of Research Libraries

Susan Gibbons, the Stephen F. Gates ’68 University Librarian and deputy provost for collections and scholarly communication at Yale University, began a one-year term as president of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) on Sept. 26, 2018, at the association’s fall meeting in Washington, D.C. 

New search tool lets researchers "lift a veil" from archive and manuscript collections

Archives at Yale, a powerful new software tool launched in early September, will allow students, faculty, and other researchers to search more precisely across and within more than 5,000 collections held by ten Yale libraries and museums. The tool is built on a widely used open-source web application—which means that Yale’s investment in developing Archives at Yale will also benefit other libraries and museums around the world.

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