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Behind the scenes at Yale Library graphic
September 15, 2018
To celebrate Founders Day, Yale University Library will host an open house in the Sterling Memorial Library Nave and adjacent spaces on Tuesday, Oct. 9 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. This will also be the official opening to the public of the newly renovated Franke Family Digital Humanities Laboratory (...
Richard Rose's work Chords: Text (After Gutenberg)
September 14, 2018
Last year’s top-to-bottom renovation of the Manuscripts and Archives space in Sterling Memorial Library got a vivid finishing touch this summer with the installation in the new Gates Classroom of Chords: Text (After Gutenberg), created by Richard Townsend Rose, a Yale College lecturer, critic in...
medieval law professor addressing students in town square
September 14, 2018
The 300-year history of Yale. Photography and the American West. Art and music of World War I. Divinity students in the turbulent 1960s. The humble origins of caricature. Pablo Neri's view of the human body. Sol LeWitt's drawing on walls. Rare botanical specimens. At Yale libraries and museums...
Book cover for responsible parties
September 13, 2018
Please join us on Tuesday, Oct. 2, at 4:30 p.m. for a thought-provoking talk by Professors Frances McCall Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro about their new book "Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself."   This is the opening event of the 2018-19 Arts and Humanities Book Talk Series, presented...
Gilmore Music Library
September 13, 2018
Monday, September 28, 1998, started out like any other day for most of the Yale community. Sunny and warm, nothing seemed unusual…except for the Music Library, which had closed Sunday evening at nine p.m., as it had for the previous eighty-one years, at 98 Wall Street. Monday, 9/28/98 changed all...
Zhongguo li shi wen xian zong ku. Jin dai bao zhi shu ju ku
September 12, 2018
A trial for a Chinese language database from the National Library of China, Zhongguo li shi wen xian zong ku. Jin dai bao zhi shu ju ku 中国历史文献总库•近代报纸数据库, has been set up for Yale University users from now to November 10, 2018. The database has been added to Library’s Chinese studies research guide...
September 10, 2018
Yale students, faculty and staff are invited to the fourth annual Undergraduate Research Symposium hosted by the Yale Undergraduate Research Association (YURA) in the Sterling Memorial Library nave on Friday, Sept. 14, 2-4 p. m. Founded in 2015, YURA’s mission is to foster a community of...

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