Meet the University Librarian

Susan Gibbons has been appointed as University Librarian at Yale University for a five year term beginning July 1, 2011.  She earned an MLS and M.A. in history from Indiana University, professional MBA from the University of Massachusetts and a doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Rochester. continue

News and Events

	Grant to Continue Arabic Digitization Efforts A multi-year $650,000 grant to Yale University Library from the U.S. Department of Education's Technological Innovation Program will support "Gateway to Gazettes" (G2G) a new project that will digitize and make available a  critical body of primary source material for Middle Eastern Studies now scarce and hard to use . (read more)
	Historical Sound Recordings Awarded Major Funding The Yale University Library, in partnership with Stanford University Library, has received a $457,776 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) for Song, Speech, and Dance: Special Collections from the Recorded Sound Archives at Yale and Stanford Universities. (read more)
	Joint Grant for Virtual Gallery of Islamic Manuscripts Yale University Library and the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) have received a joint $240,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities  (NEH) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the United Kingdom to create a virtual gallery of Islamic manuscripts. (read more)