Library News

Featured News

Panoramic view of room with wood arches and pillars and white patterned ceiling opening up to larger room with green chairs, bookshelves and round chandeliers. Two couple converse in the front foyer.

Sterling Library's L&B Room will reopen to students April 15

February 20, 2024

The Linonia and Brothers Reading Room has been closed since the beginning of the pandemic. Now, it’s being renovated to its original splendor.

Elaborate frame with columns of Korean script in gold ink on dark blue ground and lotus leaf mandala at

New exhibit in Hanke Gallery features sacred texts across faith traditions

February 21, 2024

“Copying Sacred Texts: A Spiritual Practice” is on view in Hanke Exhibition Gallery in Sterling Memorial Library through Aug. 11.

Woman with short dark hair and dark green blouse and long earrings looks at camera. To her left are shelves that display artwork. One reads "Planetaria by Monica Ong"

Yale Library’s digital designer Monica Ong Reed named a 2024 USA Fellow

January 29, 2024

The library’s senior web and digital designer Monica Ong Reed is one of 50 artists named this year as a United States Artists Fellow.

More News

Red, white, black, purple graphic design that reads "Quantum Week at Yale, April 13 to 19, quantum.yale.edu"

Library and Yale Quantum Institute celebrate World Quantum Week

April 15, 2024

Celebrate World Quantum Day (April 14) with a month of special events and exhibits hosted by Yale Library and the Yale Quantum Institute.

Man in open elevator-like lift between high rows of shelving filled with cardboard boxes

Two more student tours this spring! Library Shelving Facility offers a look behind the scenes

April 9, 2024

The Yale Library Shelving Facility invites students to take an hour-long tour of the storage facility rarely open to visitors.

black and white photo of steel framework of seven levels of building above gothic stone bass

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.

Dark blue field with light blue letter Y forming circles and white type that reads "Library Prizes"

Yale Library invites students to submit senior essays for three annual prizes

April 2, 2024

Yale College seniors can win prize money and publication for senior essays or projects based on research in Yale Library’s special collections.

Man in dark suit and red tie, with wavy black and gray hair, smiles at camera, holding a viola in front of chest

New Yale Library Miles Hoffman Concert Series opens April 19

April 2, 2024

Yale Library’s inaugural Miles Hoffman Concert will be held at the United Church on April 19 at 4 p.m.

Woman dressed in black bends over keyboard of open grand piano

Yale Library acquires historic video interviews with leading musicians

April 1, 2024

More than 250 interviews recorded for NewMusicBox between 1999 and 2020 will be digitized and made freely avaialable to researchers

Two heavy doors open into a room with a fireplace on far wall, portrait and a red crest overhead, and two chandeliers on either side. Rows of Windsor chairs line each wall.

The Medical Historical Library invites applicants for two 2024 fellowships

March 14, 2024

Applications are now open for two fellowship opportunities—up to $2,000 for one week of research in the collections of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. The deadline for applications is Sun., April 28.

Yale Library