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January 21, 2015
Time and Date: 3:00-4:00 pm, Friday February 6 Place: Room L01 A & B, Bass Library This event will feature a discussion with Prof. Jessica Chen Weiss (Political Science) examining her new book,Powerful Patriots, which traces China's management of dozens of nationalist protests and their...
January 20, 2015
We are delighted to announce the new exhibit Treasures from Japan in the Yale University Library at Beinecke Library from January 16th to April 2nd. Complementary exhibit catalogs are available at Beinecke Library Security Desk upon request. The catalog features articles written by Prof. Edward...
January 13, 2015
Happy New Year! Hope you all had a relaxing holiday break. Our Spring reference hours at the reference desk in the East Asian Reading Room start TODAY. The hours are 2-5 pm from Tuesday to Thursday, and 2-4 pm on Friday, with the exception of a few University holidays. Please feel free to stop by...
January 8, 2015
Happy New Year! Yale University Library has recently acquired three new databases related to Chinese studies: The Late Qing Dynasty Periodical Full-text Database 1833-1911 (Wan Qing qi kan quan wen shu ju ku 晚清期刊全文数据库), Zhongguo fang zhi ku, series 2 (中國方志庫, 二集) and China, America and the Pacific:...
Photo of Rollins from Carl Purington Rollins Papers, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library
January 7, 2015
Two talks at the American Printing History Association (APHA) annual conference addressed inspired teaching around printing and paper at Yale. Katherine M. Ruffin (Simmons College) discussed her doctoral research about the origins of the bibliographical press movement in academia in the early 20th...
Yale Digital Humanities Lab
December 11, 2014
Yale University Library received a $3 million award from The Goizueta Foundation to fund the creation of the Digital Humanities Laboratory (DHLab) in Sterling Memorial Library. Yale’s world-class collections offer unparalleled source material for humanistic inquiries. With the launch of the DHLab...
Matthew Jockers, Digital Humanities Lab
December 5, 2014
Matthew Jockers, Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Jockers based the workshop on the first few chapters of his new book Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature. (You can view an electronic version of this book in Yale’s online catalog.) The concepts and...

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