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Old Blue No More: A History of Latinos at Yale – exhibit reception Tuesday June 5, 12 noon Memorabilia Room, Sterling Memorial Library Join us for a special reception to celebrate the exhibit Old Blue No More: A History of...

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Sterling Memorial Library and Bass Library will commence Summer hours on Wednesday, May 9th. The hours are generally: Sterling Memorial Library Monday – Wednesday 8:30am – 4:45pm Thursday 8:30am – 9:45pm Friday 8:30am – 4:45pm Saturday 10:00am – 4:45pm Sunday...

Yale University Library http://resources.library.yale.edu/libraryhours to consult these hours along with all of the Yale University Library locations. ]]> tag:www.library.yale.edu,2012:/librarynews//18.1206 2012-05-04T14:17:06Z 2012-05-04T14:18:04Z

During the Memorial Day weekend, Friday, May 25th – Monday, May 28th, the Library will be upgrading its Orbis Library Catalog. While the upgrade is in progress, a read-only version of Orbis will be available. It will not be...

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All are welcome to an exhibition talk by WILLIAM E. BUTLER John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law and International Affairs Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University Wednesday, May 9, 2012 1:00 – 2:00pm Room 121, Yale Law School...

Yale University Library WILLIAM E. BUTLER John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law and International Affairs Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University Wednesday, May 9, 2012 1:00 – 2:00pm Room 121, Yale Law School 127 Wall Street, New Haven CT "Monuments of Imperial Russian Law," now on display in the Yale Law Library, is perhaps the first rare book exhibit in the U.S. to focus on the history of Russian law. The lead curator of the exhibit, Professor William E. Butler of Penn State, will give a talk on the exhibit May 9 in the Yale Law School The exhibition was co-curated by Mike Widener, Rare Book Librarian in the Lillian Goldman Law Library. It features principal landmarks in Russia's pre-1917 legal literature. Among these are the first printed collection of Russian laws, the 1649 "Sobornoe ulozhenie", and three versions of the "Nakaz", the law code that earned Empress Catherine the Great her reputation. Butler is the pre-eminent U.S. authority on the law of the former Soviet Union. He is the author, co-author, editor, or translator of more than 120 books on Soviet, Russian, Ukrainian, and post-Soviet legal systems. He is a member of the Grolier Club, the leading U.S. society for book collectors, and the Organization of Russian Bibliophiles. He is also a leading bookplate collector who has authored several reference works on bookplates. The exhibit is on display through May 25, 2012 in the Rare Book Exhibition Gallery, located on Level L2 of the Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street. The exhibit is open to the public, 9am-10pm daily. The exhibit is also online in the Yale Law Library Rare Books Blog, at http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/rarebooks. ]]> tag:www.library.yale.edu,2012:/librarynews//18.1204 2012-05-02T19:31:06Z 2012-05-03T19:56:16Z

Seven-Volume Limited Edition Will Reside at the Yale University Divinity School Library The Yale University Library and Saint John's University today announced the acquisition of The Saint John’s Bible Heritage Edition by Yale University. A reception celebrating the arrival of...

Yale University Library Seven-Volume Limited Edition Will Reside at the Yale University Divinity School Library The Yale University Library and Saint John's University today announced the acquisition of The Saint John’s Bible Heritage Edition by Yale University. A reception celebrating the arrival of the volumes was held on May 2 in the Day Missions Room of the Yale Divinity Library. The Saint John's Bible is the only handwritten and illuminated Bible commissioned by a Benedictine Monastery since the advent of the printing press more than 500 years ago. The Heritage Edition is a work of art in itself, a fine art reproduction of the original manuscript created under the direction of Donald Jackson, the artistic director of the original manuscript. Only 299 sets of the Heritage Edition were created. "The mission of The Saint John's Bible is to ignite the spiritual imagination of people around the world," said Fr. Robert Koopmann, OSB, president of Saint John’s University. "We are delighted that generations of Yale students, faculty, staff and visitors will have access to these inspiring and historic volumes.” The Yale acquisition represents a collaboration between the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, an interdisciplinary graduate center at Yale, and will be housed at the Divinity Library. “The Beinecke Library and the Institute of Sacred Music are pleased to help bring such an outstanding work to Yale,” commented E.C. Schroeder, Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. “The acquisition of The Saint John’s Bible will provide an opportunity for scholars, faculty and students to compare this modern edition with the Beinecke’s Medieval manuscripts and early printed Bibles.” In addition to Yale University, these fine art editions of The Saint John's Bible can also be experienced at more than 50 universities, museums, libraries and churches around the world. Original pages of The Saint John's Bible are always on exhibition at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (www.hmml.org) on the Saint John's Abbey and University Campus in Collegeville, Minnesota. The public can see original pages from the Bible as part of its touring exhibition program at the New Mexico History Museum (www.nmhistorymuseum.org) now through December 31, 2012. The Saint John's Bible is a 15-year collaboration of scripture scholars and theologians at Saint John's Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minn. with a team of artists and calligraphers at the scriptorium in Wales, United Kingdom under the direction of Donald Jackson, one of the world's foremost calligraphers and Senior Scribe to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's Crown Office at the House of Lords. Written and drawn entirely by hand using quills and paints hand-ground from precious minerals and stones such as lapis lazuli, malachite, silver and 24-karat gold, The Saint John's Bible celebrates the tradition of medieval manuscripts while embracing 21st century technology to facilitate the design process and collaboration between Saint John's in Collegeville and the scriptorium in Wales. For more information on the Yale University Library: www.library.yale.edu For more information about The Saint John's Bible, please visit www.saintjohnsbible.org. ]]> tag:www.library.yale.edu,2012:/librarynews//18.1202 2012-05-01T17:53:44Z 2012-05-01T20:29:47Z

Have you been billed for lost Yale Library books? Give us your most creative excuse and have your unreturned book fees waived! Bring lost books and your excuse (in 500 ‘clean’ words, or less), to the Privileges Office by May...

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April 30 to August 17 The Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library 180 York Street Also known as ex-libris, bookplates are labels pasted inside the front covers of books to indicate ownership. This exhibition explores the ex-libris through the...

Yale University Library April 30 to August 17 The Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library 180 York Street Also known as ex-libris, bookplates are labels pasted inside the front covers of books to indicate ownership. This exhibition explores the ex-libris through the theme of image making. Despite its small format, the bookplate is an inventive art form that inspires artists working in an encyclopedic array of graphic media. The bookplate functions as a mark of possession; however, this simple purpose belies how fervently book owners and artists consider the bookplate a vehicle for self-expression. [Your Name Here] examines both historic and modern examples of bookplates with a variety of motifs. It also uncovers how questions of authorship arise in the collaboration between artist and patron as well as in the act of collecting itself. With an estimated one million individual bookplate specimens, dating from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, the Yale Bookplate Collection is one of the largest such collections in the world. However, this collection is not a singular entity; rather, its holdings comprise many different collections and an assortment of documentary materials. It is a unique visual archive that forms a timeline of the history and the art of the ex-libris. Moreover, the collection serves as a significant resource for the study of bookplates as well as that of biography and histories of the book, art and design, and collecting. In addition to bookplates, the selections on view include process materials, original sketches, correspondence, publications, and other related printed ephemera. The exhibit is curated by Molly Dotson, Bookplate Project Archivist in the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library. For more information, contact her at molly.dotson@yale.edu or at (203) 432-7074. The exhibit will be on view until August 17. It is free and open to the public. A current Yale ID (with a prox chip) is required to enter the Haas Family Arts Library during all regular business hours. Non-Yale visitors are also welcome and can gain access to the Library through the security guard in the Loria Center entrance hall. ]]> tag:www.library.yale.edu,2012:/librarynews//18.1200 2012-04-24T16:39:05Z 2012-04-24T16:40:10Z

Thursday, May 3, 5:00 pm Location: SML International Room The libraries of the British National Trust (in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland) together form one of the greatest repositories of early printed books in Europe, and they are almost...

Yale University Library The libraries of the British National Trust (in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland) together form one of the greatest repositories of early printed books in Europe, and they are almost certainly the largest collection of historic libraries in the hands of a single institution anywhere in the world. For decades these libraries were almost entirely invisible and inaccessible, but over the last ten years the Trust has been engaged in a huge program to get their catalogues online, to open up the collection for research, and to investigate the cultural significance of books which have often remained for hundreds of years in the places where they were once collected and read. This illustrated presentation will give an overview of the libraries—many but not all in country houses, a summary of current projects, and some thoughts on the research value of 300,000 books divided among more than 150 separate locations. Mark Purcell has been Libraries Curator to the National Trust since 1999. He originally read History at Oriel College, Oxford, trained at University College, London, and has published extensively on the history of books and libraries in early modern Britain and Ireland. About SCOPA Yale University Library’s Standing Committee on Professional Awareness, SCOPA, strives to encourage professional growth and the development of librarianship as a dynamic profession. SCOPA organizes a regular series of forums devoted to a wide range of topics concerning initiatives in Yale libraries and academic libraries in general. SCOPA welcomes suggestions concerning possible future forums. More information on SCOPA ]]> tag:www.library.yale.edu,2012:/librarynews//18.1198 2012-04-18T20:07:26Z 2012-04-18T20:13:58Z

NEED A STUDY BREAK? All Yale students are welcome to join us for food and fun at The Center for Science & Social Science Information (CSSSI) at 219 Prospect Street on Monday, April 23rd from 8:30pm - 10:30pm Enjoy free...

Amanda Patrick NEED A STUDY BREAK? All Yale students are welcome to join us for food and fun at The Center for Science & Social Science Information (CSSSI) at 219 Prospect Street on Monday, April 23rd from 8:30pm - 10:30pm Enjoy free pizza, snacks, and drinks and play video games on our giant media screens! Questions? Call 203-432-3300. See you there! tag:www.library.yale.edu,2012:/librarynews//18.1186 2012-04-05T13:08:36Z 2012-04-05T13:08:59Z

Cassandra Calling: Conservation pasts, present and futures by Mary M. Brooks, textile conservator, consultant and lecturer Thursday, April 19, 3:30 pm Sterling Memorial Library lecture hall Mary M. Brooks, PhD, FIIC, ACR, is a private conservator and consultant on the...

Yale University Library Cassandra Calling: Conservation pasts, present and futures by Mary M. Brooks, textile conservator, consultant and lecturer Thursday, April 19, 3:30 pm Sterling Memorial Library lecture hall Mary M. Brooks, PhD, FIIC, ACR, is a private conservator and consultant on the conservation of textiles. She has worked in museums in the United States, Europe and England. Her exhibition, Stop the Rot, at York Castle Museum aimed to raise public awareness of heritage conservation. Besides her consulting and conservation work she teaches conservation and museology in universities in the United Kingdom and abroad. Mary has a particular interest in the contribution that object-based research and conservation approaches can make to the wider interpretation and presentation of cultural artifacts. Her talk will explore the changing relationships between conservators, conservation and the public and scholars in our post-modern digital world of replicas and multiples. There will be an informal reception following the talk. tag:www.library.yale.edu,2012:/librarynews//18.1185 2012-04-05T13:07:07Z 2012-04-05T13:08:05Z

Digital Laboratories and Collaboratories in the Humanities Monday, April 16, 2:00 pm Location: SML International Room In this forum Dean Irvine, Yale University’s Bicentennial Canadian Studies Visiting Professor, will discuss digital laboratories and collaboratories in the humanities. Bruno Latour and...

Yale University Library "> Upcoming . . . Mentoring at Yale University Library Tuesday, April 17, 3:00 pm SML International Room Alexandre Asanovic on the Bibliothèque Universitaire des Langues et Civilisations Wednesday, April 25, 2:00 pm SML International Room ]]> tag:www.library.yale.edu,2012:/librarynews//18.1178 2012-03-23T16:56:15Z 2012-03-23T16:56:46Z

Tim Brookes, woodcarver Author of Endangered Alphabets Tuesday, April 3, 11 am Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall The world has between 6,000 and 7,000 languages, but as many as half of them will be extinct by the end of this...

Yale University Library Tuesday, April 3, 11 am Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall The world has between 6,000 and 7,000 languages, but as many as half of them will be extinct by the end of this century. Another and even more dramatic way in which this cultural diversity is shrinking concerns the alphabets in which those languages are written. Writing has become so dominated by a small number of global cultures that those 6,000-7,000 languages are written in fewer than 100 alphabets. Moreover, at least a third of the world’s remaining alphabets are endangered–-no longer taught in schools, no longer used for commerce or government, understood only by a few elders, restricted to a few monasteries or used only in ceremonial documents, magic spells, or secret love letters. The Endangered Alphabets Project, which consists of an exhibition of fourteen carvings and a book, is the first-ever attempt to bring attention to this issue. “….my two worst subjects in high school were art and woodworking. I originally chose wood because of its permanence, but also because it is so beautiful. Only after I got going did I start seeing wood as a kind of ancestor material: paper was originally made out of crushed mulberry bark, papyrus is a reed, many of the scripts in southeast Asia and Indonesia used palm leaves—it seems as though wood is there in the background all the time, and carving in wood has a kind of primeval feel, almost mythic.” (Tim Brookes) All are welcome to this talk, where Tim will show examples of his endangered alphabet woodcarvings. ]]> tag:www.library.yale.edu,2012:/librarynews//18.1177 2012-03-23T16:17:16Z 2012-03-23T16:17:33Z

During the last two years, the Yale Library Staff Association (LiSA) has donated over one thousand pounds of food to the Connecticut Food Bank from an autumn pre-holiday food drive, and over $3,500 to Columbus House from the annual holiday...

Yale University Library During the last two years, the Yale Library Staff Association (LiSA) has donated over one thousand pounds of food to the Connecticut Food Bank from an autumn pre-holiday food drive, and over $3,500 to Columbus House from the annual holiday party raffle. Columbus House, Inc. (which provides aid to the homeless) and the Connecticut Food Bank, wish to personally thank the Yale community for their partnership and to share more about the work they are doing. The Yale Library Staff Association is honored to be hosting representatives of these two non-profit organizations at a presentation in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall next Tuesday afternoon, March 27th, from 1:00 - 2:00 pm. The speakers will be Ann Carr, the Director of Program Development of Columbus House, and Mary Ingarra, the Communications Director of the Connecticut Food Bank. All members of the Yale community are welcome to attend this LiSA-sponsored event. Since it will take place during the lunch period, you may bring your own brown bag lunches. In addition, cookies and water will be available in the adjoining Sterling Memorial Library Memorabilia Room. tag:www.library.yale.edu,2012:/librarynews//18.1176 2012-03-23T16:16:00Z 2012-03-23T16:16:32Z

The Medical School's Close Call: A Crisis in the Middle of the Twentieth Century Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 4:00 pm Gaddis Smith, Larned Professor Emeritus of History, will present the 64th Annual Associates Lecture at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library...

Yale University Library The Medical School's Close Call: A Crisis in the Middle of the Twentieth Century Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 4:00 pm Gaddis Smith, Larned Professor Emeritus of History, will present the 64th Annual Associates Lecture at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Author and Yale historian Gaddis Smith, '54 GRD '61 will present the keynote address for the Annual Lecture sponsored by the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Associates. After the tercentennial, Smith took on the task of updating Yale's history, exploring the external influences that shaped the University in the last century, and studying its evolution to its current place in the modern world. His research resulted in the publication of the bookYale and the External World: The Shaping of the University in the Twentieth Century. Smith's keynote address details the seriousness of a growing large deficit immediately after World War II. Smith graduated from Yale College in 1954 and received his doctorate in history from Yale in 1961. He taught at Duke for three years but returned to Yale as an assistant professor in history specializing in American diplomatic history. In addition to his many years teaching, Smith also served as Master of Pierson College, chair of the History Department, and director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. Reception follows in the Beaumont Room ]]> tag:www.library.yale.edu,2012:/librarynews//18.1175 2012-03-23T12:55:36Z 2012-03-23T12:56:49Z

Thursday, April 5, 2:00pm Location: Beinecke Library, Room 38 Author Belinda McKeon will give a reading from her novel Solace(2011). McKeon will also discuss the theme of literary research in her writing and her own literary archives. The forum will...

Yale University Library Thursday, April 5, 2:00pm Location: Beinecke Library, Room 38 Author Belinda McKeon will give a reading from her novel Solace(2011). McKeon will also discuss the theme of literary research in her writing and her own literary archives. The forum will conclude with viewing some of the manuscripts of the late-18th-century/early-19th-century author Maria Edgeworth, who figures in Solace (one of the central characters of the novel, Mark, is a graduate student writing a dissertation on Maria Edgeworth). Belinda McKeon was born in Ireland in 1979. Her debut novel, Solacewas published by Scribner in 2011. It was voted Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book of the Year 2011, as well as being named a Kirkus Outstanding Debut and winning the Sunday Independent Best Newcomer award at the Irish Book Awards. McKeon lives between Brooklyn and Ireland and has written on the arts for The Irish Timessince 2000. As a playwright, she has had work produced in New York and Dublin, and is currently under commission to the Abbey Theatre. About SCOPA Yale University Library’s Standing Committee on Professional Awareness, SCOPA, strives to encourage professional growth and the development of librarianship as a dynamic profession. SCOPA organizes a regular series of forums devoted to a wide range of topics concerning initiatives in Yale libraries and academic libraries in general. SCOPA welcomes suggestions concerning possible future forums. ]]>