In commemoration of the centennial of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela's birth on July 18, 1918, the Beinecke Library will have on view, in temporary exhibition cases on the mezzanine, three items related to Mandela from Yale library collections from July 13 - July 23, 2018.
On view at the library from...
Dr. Dori Laub, one of the founders of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, died on June 23, 2018, in Woodbridge, Connecticut.
Dr. Laub and Laurel Vlock, a New Haven television producer, began videotaping Holocaust survivors in May 1979 in what became the Holocaust Survivors Film...
In a new Yale history exhibit, photos, letters, artifacts, and other archival material bring alive the stories of notable Yalies, including:
Ebenezer Baldwin. He was a 1763 graduate who died serving in the Revolutionary War.
Elizabeth Deering Hanscom (pictured at left). She was the first woman to...
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library will mark the 242nd anniversary of the nation’s founding with a special display of the Dunlap Broadside, a rare copy of the historic first printing of the Declaration of Independence, together with an 1852 printing of Frederick Douglass’ famous...
Visiting Yale University or New Haven this summer? Don’t miss this wide range of exhibitions taking place at different locations within the Yale University Library. All are free and open to the public during regular library opening hours.
The Early Modern Pharmacy: Drugs, Recipes, and Apothecaries...
The Irving S. Gilmore Music Library is pleased to announce that it will be taking part in a beta test for a new publisher supported music reading app called nkoda.
For a quick introduction to nkoda, take a look at this short video overview of the app.
According to the app’s developers:
“nkoda is...
A long-time champion of Yale University Library made provisions through his estate to endow the position of university librarian. Susan Gibbons now serves as the inaugural Stephen F. Gates ‘68 University Librarian and Deputy Provost for Collections and Scholarly Communication. Read the Yale News...
