Faculty, students and librarians work together
Faculty, students and librarians collaborate on a project to update Wikipedia pages in one of the Bass Library classrooms.
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Beinecke/Sterling Memorial Library
This photo shows the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in the foreground and Sterling Memorial Library in the distance.
The Beinecke Library acquires papers of writers Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
Archives of famous British literary couple add to holdings in 20th century British literature The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University just announced its acquisition of the papers of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, prominent figures in English arts and letters in the 20th century whose complex relationship was intimately recounted in the 1973 best-selling biography, “Portrait of a Marriage.” “The Sackville-West and Nicolson archives are an exciting addition to Beinecke Library’s deep holdings of 20th century British literary figures,” says Timothy Young, c
Sterling Memorial Library nave
This photo shows a highlight of the ceiling of the Sterling Memorial Library nave, having undergone a yearlong restoration.
Library's most recent Annual Report now online
The FY 2012-13 issue of the Annual Report of the University Librarian, is now available online at: http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=yul_annual-reports#page=2
Spring issue of Nota Bene now online
The spring issue of Nota Bene: News from the Yale Library is now online, featuring news and resources from around the Yale Library system: http://web.library.yale.edu/yul-publications
Hot Spots: Highlights from the Jazz Collections in the Gilmore Music Library
A new exhibit is now on view in the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, located in Sterling Memorial Library.
Under the Covers: A Visual History of Decorated Endpapers
Saturday, January 18, 2014 - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 B
einecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
121 Wall St., New Haven, CT 06511
Endpapers, slipped discreetly between a book’s binding and text block, are easy to overlook. They developed from a practical need: to protect illuminations from the wear of the hardwood boards that were the covers of medieval books. Over time, binders and publishers began to experiment, using marbled and decorated papers for artistic effect and later putting advertisements, elaborate designs, genealogies, and landscapes on endpapers.
Yale Library's African Collection Curator remembers Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
Dorothy Woodson, curator of the African Collection at the Yale Library, came to Yale in 2000. She met Nelson Mandela several times while working in the Presidential offices in South Africa in 1996. She and several other Yale people, share recollections of the late Nelson Mandela in this YaleNews article:
Discover the big appeal of Yale’s smaller exhibits
Avid exhibition-goers may have recently traveled back to ancient Egypt at the Peabody Museum, encountered Renaissance painter Francesco Vanni at the Yale Art Gallery, or felt the “Power of Pictures” at the Beinecke Library. But did you know you could also dance with Lady Emma Hamilton, discover the secrets of alchemy, or spend time in the street markets of Hong Kong?
Read more in this YaleNews article about the abundance of exhibitions on view now at Yale, including at several Yale libraries, that draw from special collections.
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