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Library helps add new voices to Music and the Black Church program

October 3, 2022
Yale Library’s Oral History of American Music grows its collection of interviews with gospel greats.
Six librarians posing for portrait, four women and one man, standing in front of wooden library door. The two women at left have short brown hair and wear blue tops; two shorter women at center stand on step below the others; on the right end is a man with a blue check, long-sleeve shirt. At center in back row is a woman with a pink cardigan and polka dot skirt..

Twenty librarians promoted

September 13, 2022
Promotions recognize achievement and growth in specialized knowledge, skills, leadership, and contributions to the profession.
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Marx Library welcomed visiting librarian James Wong

September 13, 2022
A science librarian from Yale-NUS College in Singapore spent September with Yale Library colleagues.
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Extraordinary collection of early maps on display at the Beinecke Library

September 6, 2022
The World in Maps, 1400–1600, a new exhibition at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, presents a selection of the most impressive and historically important maps in the library’s collection from the late Medieval and Early Modern periods.
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Telling the stories of science: Rebecca Wessel ’24 explores digital narratives

September 2, 2022
Rebecca Wessel ’24 spent her summer as Marx Library’s climate change technologies fellow. After completing three data-driven, interactive projects—two of her own design—Wessel came away with critical new skills in her field and plenty of potential topics for her senior thesis.
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Award-winning film from library's Fortunoff Archive screened in festivals worldwide

August 24, 2022
“The Waltz,” an animated short by artist Yulia Ruditskaya, 2022 Laurel Vlock Fellow at the Fortunoff Video Archive, is based on a a poem by the Yiddish poet A. Lutzky.
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Mormons, music, theater, and celebrity: Library Fellows explore the archives

August 22, 2022
After a brief hiatus in the program, Yale Library welcomes the 2022–23 Special Collections Fellows. Six scholars recently presented their work in progress at the summer colloquium.