Information about the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters and related collections at the Beinecke Library with emphasis on recent acquisitions.

Information from the staff of the Beinecke Library detailing efforts to reduce the environmental impact of our daily work routines, our transportation and consumer habits, and our energy use.

Information about poetry collections, recent acquisitions, and events at the Beinecke Library with an emphasis on the Yale Collection of American Literature.

An online exhibition providing a window into the Beinecke Library. The site features compelling and curious titles and images from the Beinecke Library’s Modern Books and Manuscripts and American Literature collections.

Comments from University Librarian Alice Prochaska.

Metaphor Taking Shape: Poetry, Art, and the Book includes a broad display of books exploring the ways in which poets, publishers, artists, and printers have navigated the intersection of poetry and art in printed formats. In this podcast, Nancy Kuhl, Associate Curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature discusses highlights from the show. (7:47)

Timothy Young, curator of the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children's Literature, is interviewed by Nancy Kuhl, Associate Curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature about the recent publication, "Drawn to Enchant". He gives an overview of the work, which traces American children's literature through iconic images - namely original pieces from the Shirley collection. Along the way, he describes some of his favorite works and gives some insight on putting the book together. (12:03)

A podcast describing highlights of the exhibition "Documenting Slavery," on view at the Beinecke through October 2007. (6:41)

A podcast by collector, guest curator and Kipling scholar David Alan Richards, describing how he built the world's largest collection of unique Kipling items. Richards' collection was exhibited at the Beinecke in the summer of 2007. (12:01)

Podcasts of poetry readings by contemporary American poets and an annual reading by Yale graduate and undergraduate student poets. The current schedule of reading is available online through Poetry at Beinecke Library: Readings at Beinecke. Recordings from past readings are available from the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series finding aid.