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Beinecke Library acquires Sylvia Plath family papers

November 7, 2025

The archive offers previously inaccessible resources and new insights into the life and work of a beloved American poet. The materials will be available for use at Beinecke Library in early December.

GIS librarian Miriam Olivares among this year's Linda Lorimer Award recipients

November 12, 2025

Olivares, head of Geospatial Support Services at Yale Library and the Yale Center for Geospatial Solutions, received the award for her distinguished service.

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Music Library exhibition celebrates Yale’s first professor of jazz as oral historian

November 4, 2025

“Willie Ruff: In Jazz and in the World,” is on view in the Gilmore Music Library corridor through March 15.

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New exhibition opens Dec. 9 to celebrate 10 years of student curators at Yale Library

November 21, 2025

Nearly 50 students have participated in the Yale Library Student Exhibition Program, acquiring experiences and skills that have shaped them and their careers.

Beinecke exhibition tells the textured story of Japan's crêpe-paper book traditions

November 18, 2025

“Textured Stories: The Chirimen Books of Modern Japan” is on view at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library through May 3.

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Tracking the traveling circus: Student maps data to visualize American history

November 13, 2025

Devin Jernigan, a Ph.D. candidate in Architecture, created digital maps tracing the routes of traveling circuses that moved across the United States in the 1800s and early 1900s

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Exhibition at Lewis Walpole Library surveys life and work of painter Thomas Patch through Dec. 15

November 12, 2025

“ Caricatures, Campagna, and Connoisseurs: Thomas Patch and the British Grand Tour in Eighteenth-Century Italy ” is on view in the exhibition gallery at the Lewis Walpole Library, through Dec. 15, Wednesdays from 2 to 4:30 pm.

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Five new and nine expanded collections now available for researchers

November 10, 2025

Five new collections were processed in the third quarter of 2025, including the papers of former Yale President Benno Schmidt Jr.

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“Your Yale” highlights the teamwork and planning behind major library technology upgrade

October 23, 2025

“Your Yale” explores the two-year, library-wide effort that culminated in the successful launch of the new library services platform.

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Sterling Library reopens Andrews Study Room and invites students to suggest further enhancements

October 23, 2025

The Andrews Study Room (SML 215), closed for renovation in June, reopened for study and browsing on Oct. 22. The library is seeking student suggestions for a second phase of the project.

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