A new exhibit, now on view in the Lillian Goldman Law Library’s Rare Book Exhibition Gallery, demonstrates the use of an innovative technology called Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), which offers scholars a new way to examine tooled bookbindings.
Reflections on Bindings: Using New...
In a small classroom on the lower level of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, a cardboard box, small scraps of paper, and manila file folders are set out before three researchers. The modest setting belies the unprecedented project being undertaken.
For the first time ever, the...
Seb Chan
Friday April 5, 2:00 pm
YCBA Lecture Hall, 1080 Chapel Street
Sebastian Chan is director of Digital & Emerging Media at the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. He is responsible for the Museum's complete digital renewal and re-imagining as it undergoes...
Looking to gain some experience with professional-grade media equipment? There is now a Bass Media Equipment Petting Zoo in the Bass Media Lab (BML)! Specialized equipment is checked out by the media techs that staff the BML so that patrons who are interested in some of the more specialized...
Sterling Memorial Library (SML) will close to readers at 3:00 p.m. this Friday, April 5, to accommodate a major event on Friday evening. SML will re-open to readers at 10:00 am on Saturday, April 6.
In advance of this closing, many of the furnishings and services in SML will be temporarily...
Each year, the Harvey M. Applebaum '59 Award is conferred on a Yale College senior for an outstanding senior essay based on research that draws upon Yale University Library's government documents collections. This year, the committee awarded the $500 prize to Nicole Hobbs (Ezra Stiles College) for...
Last summer saw the soft launch of EliScholar, Yale University Library's institutional repository. The purpose of an institutional repository is to freely display and archive faculty and student research in a variety of formats. The creation of EliScholar is important in that it supports the...
