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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...
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...
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...
Wednesday July 16, 2:00pm Sterling Memorial Library International Room Interested in knowing more about Yale's collections on medicine, health, sexuality, science, and disease? Join Melissa Grafe, John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History, and Bill Landis, Head of Public Services in...
The final exhibition of the Beinecke’s 50th anniversary celebrations, The Power of Pictures, draws upon the Library’s collections to consider our visual heritage, a record of image-making that began at least 40,000 years ago. In the digital era our daily lives are awash in pictures: still and...
Thanks to the generosity of Yale alumnus Frederick Iseman (Yale College '74), the Yale School of Music and the Gilmore Music Library now offer access to the spectacular Met Opera on Demand. Click here to give it a try: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/yuldb/yuldb894. Met Opera on Demand includes dozens...
Dustin Lewis, Project Manager, Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society Tuesday April 16, 2:00 pm SML International Room The modern college textbook, often written with a specific course in mind, is expensive, inflexible, and hard to customize or update. Professors who wish to teach...

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