What's New?
News from the Arts Library
/August, 2004
The Arts Library
has begun a three-year project to describe, improve access to, and preserve
a variety of its special collections. The project will focus initially on
materials in the Drama Library where important collections of photographs
and prints, original costume and set designs, personal papers, and photographs,
audio and videotapes of productions are housed. In addition to cataloging
the collections and making their contents better known to potential users
through Orbis records and online finding aids, the project will address preservation
needs of the materials so that they can continue to be available to researchers
for years to come. The holdings of Yale's manuscript and archival repositories
reflect not only the significant history of theatre at Yale, but international
performance activity from early times to the present day. The processing of
the materials in the Drama Library will contribute to additional discoveries
and connections between and among the collections at Yale and repositories
throughout the world. For more information please contact project archivist
Susan Brady (susan.brady@yale.edu, 432-7074).
Tours of the Lewis Walpole
Library available / Ongoing
Tours of the
Library's eighteenth-century Farmington house and its collections occur each
Thursday at 3:00 p.m. To make an appointment to visit Yale's place in the
country on a Thursday afternoon and to see "Painted and Printed Color
in Eighteenth-Century Satire," please call or email the Library by the
preceding Tuesday. Telephone: 860-677-2140; Email: walpole@yale.edu.
