Archives at Yale, a powerful new software tool launched in early September, will allow students, faculty, and other researchers to search more precisely across and within more than 5,000 collections held by ten Yale libraries and museums. The tool is built on a widely used open-source web...
To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, we invite you to join us for Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool, followed by a discussion with Professor Bevery Gage. Robert Forster stars as a TV news cameraman in what Vincent Canby described as "a film of tremendous...
A trial for a Chinese language database, Song Tomb Inscriptions Database 《宋代墓誌銘資料庫》, has been set up for Yale University users from now to October 31, 2018.
Song Tomb Inscriptions Database 《宋代墓誌銘資料庫》 is the first series of Zhonghua Shuju’s 中華書局 China Stone Inscriptions Database 《中華石刻數據庫》. It...
Through Bergman's Lens: Ingmar Bergman Centenary Film Series begins with two films from 1953 starring the great Harriet Andersson. Dave Kehr wrote that Summer with Monika shows Bergman's "developing ability to probe the psychology of a rich, vital woman without losing his objectivity," while Derek...
The Irving S. Gilmore Music Library is pleased to announce the completion of an 18-month project, generously funded by a grant from the Grammy Museum, focused on preserving approximately 335 hours of unique non-commercial audio, predominantly from 1937-1956, featuring music by Charles Ives (1874-...
A home-grown library classification system that has challenged generations of incoming Yalies is being phased out of the Sterling Memorial Library stack tower. Thousands of books will soon be easier to find in the online catalog and on the shelves.
Back in 1890, Yale librarians developed their own...
Travel to the French Riviera with Grace Kelly and Cary Grant by way of Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief. The romantic thriller won an Academy Award for cinematography, with additional nominations for costume design and art direction. "In his accustomed manner," wrote critic Bosley Crowther, "Mr...
