On Monday, June 23rd, the Yale University Library migrates to a new system for tracking and accessing electronic resources, which will result in a new YaleLinks menu and a new A-Z title list for journals. This migration will move Yale’s electronic access systems onto a single integrated system,...
Scholarly detective work has revealed that an 1858 manuscript, housed at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, is the earliest-known prison memoir written by an African American. Acquired by the Beinecke in 2009, the book-length manuscript, titled “The Life and Adventures of a Haunted...
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Lillian Goldman Law Library at the Yale Law School recently acquired the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts and Printed Books, an extraordinary collection of English manuscripts and printed books from the 13th through...
On Monday, August 25, 2014, the magnificent entrance nave in Sterling Memorial Library (SML) reopens to the public, marking the completion of a major restoration project that has returned the nave to its original splendor and brought about improvements that will better serve the needs of library...
Saturday, January 18, 2014 - Saturday, April 19, 2014
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
121 Wall St., New Haven, CT 06511
Libraries conventionally organize and classify collections according to author, title, and subjects as diverse as children’s literature, amateur photography, Harlem...
Time flies. It is one year since Susan Gibbons announced a digital strategy for Yale University Library, addressing issues of policy and governance, technical infrastructure, and metadata standards. There's a lot more to digitization than meets the eye, such as the need for digital...
Yale President Peter Salovey will announce the 2014 winners of the Windham Campbell Literature Prizes on Friday, March 7th at 10am. Please join us at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 121 Wall St., or watch via live stream at windhamccampbell.org.
