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Lauren Di Monte in new Yale Library leadership post for research and learning

December 19, 2022
As Associate University Librarian for Research and Learning, Di Monte will bring together and build research services and expertise across all disciplines.
Painted ticket that shows five people in Victorian dress riding down a roller coaster from the mountains. Pine trees and birds are visible below them. To left is the name of the ride "Le Caucase: Porte des Ternes Porte Maillot". in brown and blue type across mountain range. On the right in red ink is the ticket stub for the ride with a drawings of a woman holding the printed pass.

Subjects and Objects: A curated view of the changing world of Slavic studies

December 14, 2022
This exhibition showcases the Slavic collections of Yale Library—objects, photographs, posters, and books acquired over the course of 126 years.
Detail of sixteenth-century map on parchment, showing drawings of reindeer, camel, unicorn at left, a sixteen-point blue, black, and red compass rose at lower edge and drawing of a coastline with handwritten notations, clusters of buildings with red and black flags throughout and an inset circle showing Europe, Africa, the Atlantic and the coast of the New World

Sixteenth-century mapmaker helps Yale Library celebrate the holiday season

December 12, 2022
Colorful map from Beinecke Library exhibit The World in Maps is featured in Yale Library’s holiday message.

Video: What Are Dogs Doing in Eighteenth-Century Art?

December 8, 2022
What are dogs doing in eighteenth-century art? A historian explains, using works from the Lewis Walpole Library. View the lecture.
close-up detail of a metal library card holding four different colored books fanned out to show the BorrowDirect tracking labels on them. A sign on the cart reads "Resource Sharing"

BorrowDirect service will move to a new platform on Dec. 13

December 8, 2022
The popular BorrowDirect service—which provides quick turnaround borrowing from 12 partner libraries—will remain the same.
Table layout of 10 white cards that show swatches of color, ranging from blues, yellows, purple. In front of the standing cards are open plastic cylinders containing ground pigments in a range of colors, used to make paints. At lower left is a white paper with some brush strokes of sample colors--four green, four purple, and one yellow

Hands-on learning: Three student curators explore color in theory and practice

November 14, 2022
An inspiring art history class—taught with objects from special collections—leads to a colorful exhibition curated by three classmates.
black and white photo shows shirtless woman with short hair and the words "Title IX" written on her back. She is facing away from camera, holding papers in her hand. To her right and looking off and to the right is a woman wearing a suit and open necked blouse. Blurred backs of heads of unidentified individuals are in the foreground and on the wall hangs a poster for Yale Women's Soccer.

Online exhibit documents triumphs and trials of Yale’s first women athletes

November 9, 2022
By 1979, Yale had 13 women’s varsity teams—and they struggled for their share of resources and support.