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Close-up of actress Elsa Lanchester in Bride of Frankenstein.
October 18, 2021
Though the big screen remains dark for now, we've scared up another witches' brew of film frights to haunt your dreams this Halloween. Stream and scream to ten terrifying treasures from cinema's most ghoulish genre. These spectral offerings are part of Yale University Library's streaming video...
color photo of filmmaker Cynthia Childs on a bed, talking on the phone
October 13, 2021
Enjoy Home Movie Day at home this year with a selection of home and amateur movies from one of Yale's first filmmakers. The S.W. Childs, Jr. Collection at the Yale Film Archive is the archive's largest collection of home and amateur films, made up of more than 400 reels of film shot by pioneering...
October 12, 2021
Yale Arts Library's trial access to Artforum Archive runs through November 11, 2021. Once you’ve tried the database, please fill out the trial feedback form. Responses from the Yale community will help inform the library’s decision whether to purchase this resource.   Artforum Archive provides...
September 15, 2021
Part of the 50WomenAtYale150, this exhibition highlights works by women who graduated from the Graphic Design program at Yale School of Art. Like all the school’s programs, Graphic Design—the first graduate program in graphic design in the United States—has been coeducational since its founding,...
hands typing on keyboard
July 15, 2021
Due to scheduled maintenance of the Yale network, all Yale Library websites and online resources will be offline from around 9 pm on Saturday, July 17, until midmorning on Sunday, July 18. We regret any inconvenience to our patrons.  The shutdown of library resources is part of a planned...
Woman with dark hair and plaid jacket against backdrop of Gothic library builiding
July 15, 2021
Michelle Light has been appointed as the new Associate University Librarian for Special Collections and Director of the Beinecke Library, effective October 1, 2021. The appointment was announced today by Barbara Rockenbach, Stephen F. Gates '68 University Librarian. Light comes to Yale University...
A black and white photograph of Yale art students standing at easels paitning a live model
July 7, 2021
This online exhibition presents a chronology of the presence of women at Yale by honoring those—named and unnamed, seen and unseen—whose heroic efforts have contributed to and enriched the university. For centuries—and mostly unrecognized in supportive roles—the traces of women’s contributions to...

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