New Access Policy
A current Yale ID (with a prox chip) is required to enter the Haas Family Arts Library during all regular business hours. Non-Yale visitors are also welcome and can gain access to the library through the security guard in the Loria Center entrance hall. Visitors must present a photo ID and sign the library’s guestbook, located at the main service desk inside the library.

Exhibition:

[Your Name Here]: The Ex-Libris and Image Making

April 30 - August 17, 2012

Bookplates, also known as ex-libris, are labels pasted inside the front covers of books to indicate ownership.  This exhibition explores the ex-libris through the theme of image making.  Despite its small format, the bookplate is an inventive art form that inspires artists working in an encyclopedic array of graphic media.  The bookplate functions as a mark of possession; however, this simple purpose belies how fervently book owners and artists consider the bookplate a vehicle for self-expression.  [Your Name Here] examines both historic and modern examples of bookplates with a variety of motifs.  It also uncovers how questions of authorship arise in the collaboration between artist and patron as well as in the act of collecting itself.