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LSF at 25: A visual history of Yale University Library Shelving Facility

April 25, 2024
Learn more in this visual story featuring video clips, an interactive timeline, and a narrative of the first 25 years by Michael DiMassa, who was the manager of LSF from 1998 to 2010.
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"Whaling Logbooks": The 2024 Senior Fellowship Exhibit opens April 29

April 23, 2024
Curated by AJ Laird, the exhibition features 19th- and 20th-century mariners’ logbooks, which documented every aspect of sea voyages as they unfolded and reveal the complex world of the whaling industry.
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Student curator Molly Smith ’25 honors champion of Yale College women

April 18, 2024
Elga Ruth Wasserman, JD ’76, was a passionate advocate for the first classes of women enrolled in Yale College in the 1960’s and ’70s. Her portrait was installed in Bass Library last year.
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L&B is back! Sterling Memorial Library’s grand reading room reopens

April 16, 2024
The Linonia and Brothers (L&B) Room is open again after a long hiatus—and is better than ever.
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New Haven mayor appoints library's Michael Morand as city historian

April 15, 2024
Michael Morand, director of community engagement for Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, is only the city’s third official historian.
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Library and Yale Quantum Institute celebrate World Quantum Week

April 14, 2024
Celebrate World Quantum Day (April 14) with a month of special events and exhibits hosted by Yale Library and the Yale Quantum Institute.
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Happy 93rd birthday, Sterling Memorial Library

April 9, 2024
Sterling Memorial Library, named for benefactor John William Sterling and designed by architect James Gamble Rogers, was dedicated on April 11, 1931.