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Library adds three more gospel legends to its collection of oral history interviews

May 13, 2024
Gospel stars Lady Tramaine Hawkins, Richard Smallwood, and BeBe Winans were interviewed for the Oral History of American Music collection.

The library’s student employees, Class of 2024, share their favorite work memories

May 7, 2024
Graduating library employees are thanked for their service with individualized bookplates in volumes on the shelves of the collection.
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LSF at 25: A visual history of Yale University Library Shelving Facility

April 25, 2024
LSF is “more than a critical storage facility,” says Barbara Rockenbach, Stephen F. Gates ’68 University Librarian. “It is an essential service center with expert staff.” 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.
19th century color print of boat full of men being tossed by waves with whale with horns and open mouth alongside and floating barrel in waters

"Whaling Logbooks": The 2024 Senior Fellowship Exhibit opens April 29

April 23, 2024
For nearly two centuries, the coast of New England was home to the “Yankee” whaling industry. In Connecticut, the industry operated from ports in New London, Mystic, and New Haven. This exhibit—curated by AJ Laird ’24, this year’s senior exhibit fellow—features logbooks from the Sterling Library’s Manuscripts and Archives Whaling Logs Collection. Laird, who has firsthand experience as a deckhand on sailing vessels, also conducted research at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts and at the Portsmouth Athenaeum in New Hampshire. The Whaling Logs Collection During the early 19th and
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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. A portrait of Wasserman, installed last year, hangs on the north wall in Bass Library. This spring, American Studies major Molly Smith ’25 has created a banner exhibit about the life and legacy of Wasserman, will be on view in Bass Library. “In addition to her work on behalf of coeducation at Yale, Wasserman was also a chemist, attorney, feminist, and scholar,” Smith explained. “She is not well known by many students, and my goal with this project is to get
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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
Mayor Justin Elicker appoints Michael Morand, director of community engagement for Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, as New Haven’s official city historian–following in the footsteps of Judith Schiff, chief research archivist until her death in 2022.