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When Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis left his library to Yale in 1979 Lewis thought of his gift not as a finished monument but as a living thing that required growth and change lest it become, in his words, “static and moldy.” This new exhibition, now on view at the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, CT,...
Wednesday May 1, 1:00 pm Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Room 38/39 In this forum Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of The New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, will discuss his work. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a...
Nineteen first-person accounts of witnesses, including Jews, non-Jews, American POWs, GIs who first entered the camps, a member of the Hitler youth, a Jesuit priest, resistance fighters, and child survivors are woven into a single narrative of World War II and the Holocaust. They tell stories of...
After being used as swing space for the York Street wing renovation project and the nave restoration, the Newspaper Reading Room in Sterling Memorial Library has finally finished serving as swing space. Furniture has been returned and reconfigured for use as reading/study space. The room is...
"It was the best of times; it was the worst of times"....this famous opening line from Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities is the best way to describe the work that occurred in early 2014 to kick off conservation treatment for a pair of globes (one terrestrial and one celestial) produced by noted maker...
Director of Finance & Business Operations/Lead Administrator Library Business Office Yale University Library New Haven, CT Rank: Grade M7 Requisition: #21765BR www.yale.edu/jobs Schedule: Full-time (37.5 hours per week); Standard Work Week (M-F, 8:30-5:00) Yale University offers exciting...
Saturday, January 18, 2014 - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 B einecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library 121 Wall St., New Haven, CT 06511 Stephen Tennant (1906 - 1987) is mainly remembered for his striking appearance and position as one of the “Bright Young People,” a group of upper-class British artists,...

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