Ensemble@Yale premiered last year with over 12,000 pages of archival theater programs from 1925-2016. It is an experiment that aims to transform historic programs (mostly from the School of Drama and Yale Rep) into searchable text through crowdsourced transcription. With your help transcribing...
October 8-12, 2018
See examples of eco-friendly design at the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library. Our temporary display case on the main-level bridge will feature books on fashion, architecture, and packaging. Additional related materials are available for browsing in our New Books area. Stop by...
Come one, come all to the first ever Cultural Heritage Crawl!
The Arts Library Special Collections (ALSC) hosted an open house from 3-5 pm on Thursday, August 23, as part of a campus-wide Cultural Heritage Crawl. All Yale instructors were encouraged to visit our space, meet the Arts Librarians...
September 17-December 14, 2018
Douglas R. Hofstadter writes in his 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid that “there is something clean and pure in the abstract notion of number, removed from counting beads, dialects, or clouds” (p. 56). And yet, numbers are necessarily bound up...
Winners of the 2018 Lohmann & Van Sinderen Prizes for Excellence in Undergraduate Printing and Design were announced at an April 27 awards ceremony in the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library. The entries this year included a diverse range of pieces made for personal, academic, and...
The Lohmann & Van Sinderen Prizes aim to recognize and celebrate the broad range of interest in planning, craft, and invention that gives undergraduate design and printing at Yale its singular character. The judges are eager to see printed works of all kinds in order to reward skill, discipline...
April 9–September 7, 2018
Text and textile are linked far beyond their shared linguistic origin in the Latin verb texere, meaning to weave. Both are situated at intersections of the material and the cultural. Craft, content, and context determine their use values and multiple meanings over time. A...
![Loculus of Archimedes (Cutler Solution 17, reflected) by Harriet Bart. From the book 13 [divided by] 14 (2004).](https://web.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/13div14-4800dpi500x500.jpg "Loculus of Archimedes (Cutler Solution 17, reflected) by Harriet Bart. From the book 13 [divided by] 14 (2004).")
![[Detail of slipcase textile], Negative Entropy (2015) by Mika Tajima. Image copyright Mika Tajima. Used with permission.](https://web.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/ne001-1-500_1.jpg "[Detail of slipcase textile], Negative Entropy (2015) by Mika Tajima. Image copyright Mika Tajima. Used with permission.")