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August 26, 2019
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive invites you to join us for a year-long celebration of women filmmakers, beginning this fall with four feature films in 35mm and an evening of short films by Yale women. These screenings are presented as part of Yale's 50WomenAtYale150 commemorative activities:...
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July 29, 2019
The Gilmore Music Library is currently trialing a new database, Rock's Backpages - the world's biggest archive of music journalism and pop writing of the last 60 years.  Comprising of over 40,000 articles, the RBP library aggregates the work of over 720 of the finest writers across all popular-...
July 25, 2019
The Yale Film Study Center has received a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to support preservation of James Baldwin: From Another Place, a documentary by Yale alumnus Sedat Pakay MFA '68. The 12-minute short was shot in Istanbul in 1970 during a time when Baldwin was living in...
July 16, 2019
The Yale Film Study Center has completed preservation of The Beginnings of Bebop (1981), a film that documents a guided tour of significant locations in the history of bebop music, led by legendary trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. After completing work on a film with Gillespie about the songs and games...
June 26, 2019
As an architecture student at Yale in the late 1960s, Josh Morton lived in New Haven's Hill neighborhood, half a block from the local chapter headquarters of the Black Panther Party. Looking for a new way to support their cause, Morton volunteered to drive for the Panthers' "Breakfast for Children...
May 30, 2019
There will be minor construction in East Asia Library rooms 222 and 221 sporadically during June and July. For alternate study spaces please consult: https://web.library.yale.edu/places/to-study
Authors from the Class of 1969 exhibit poster in the nave
May 30, 2019
Among the graduates of the class of 1969 gathering on campus this weekend to celebrate their fiftieth reunion are dozens of authors. Forty-eight of their books—paired with brief author essays—are featured in a special exhibition in the Sterling Memorial Library Nave through Monday, June 3. The...

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