Sterling Memorial Library is pleased to announce that it will expand its carrel program to include all Yale graduate students. This is in response to requests made to the Graduate School Dean and the Library. Students interested in securing a study carrel for the next academic year can contact:...
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...
All are welcome to join a special curatorial tour of the new exhibits now on view at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library on Friday, July 31 at 12 noon. Curator Susan Wheeler will lead the tour. The exhibits included in the tour are: 8 interesting objects (in the Cushing Rotunda) and Movie...
Beginning on the Tuesday evening, May 20, construction workers will start removing the pedestrian tunnel in the Sterling Memorial Library nave, following its yearlong restoration. The dismantling will occur at night when the Library is closed, and should be completed by Friday evening. It will...
Recent visitors to Sterling Memorial Library may have noticed construction activity in the L&B Reading Room, whose entrance is adjacent to the High Street entrance of the nave. The project aims to fully restore the windows along the west side of the reading room and includes complete re-leading...
A survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek and Auschwitz relates her wartime experiences and describes her postwar reunion with her husband, whom she had married in the ghetto at the age of 16. She emphasizes her determination to survive as an act of defiance against Hitler, a decision she reached...
University Librarian Susan Gibbons is interviewed as part of this Washington Post article about changes in libraries as the world grows more digital. ...."It doesn’t have to be a dichotomy of physical and digital. In the ideal library of the future, it’s all weaving together.” More at: http...
