As an undergraduate, Elai Katz ’92 loved getting lost in the stacks of Sterling Memorial Library, discovering unexpected treasures, and imaging the students and scholars who had run across those same books long before. Like generations of students before and since, when it was time to study...
This new exhibit is now on view in the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, located in Sterling Memorial Library. 2013 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Richard Wagner, the composer who not only crafted masterworks such as ‘Tristan und Isolde’ and the ‘Ring’ tetralogy, but who also...
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...
Sterling Memorial Library's Newspaper Reading Room–the room that formerly housed the library's newspaper collections and which is now a general study space–will reopen for use on Monday January 13, following a complete re-carpeting of the room. The entrance to the room is located just adjacent to...
Join us on Thursday, February 11 from 2-3pm in the SML Lecture Hall for Preserving History and Privacy: Creating a Digital Archive of Record from the Earliest African American Psychiatric Hospital, by Dr. King Davis, Professor at the University of Texas at Austin (UT).
Dr. King Davis has...
Illustrating his recollections with photographs, a child survivor from Humenné, Slovakia describes an early childhood full of love and warmth in spite of the death of his father when he was three years old. With evident pride in his own resourcefulness and that of the adults who cared for him, he...
The lapdesks, provided by the Yale chapter of Design for America, are lightweight and ergonomic. They have been specially chosen to reduce wrist, back, and other types of injuries incurred through repeated laptop usage. Lapdesks are available for checkout at the Bass Library circulation desk...
