More than 150,000 people visited the Beinecke Library’s ground floor and mezzanine public exhibition areas in the last year. Those who knew the building before its recent renovation have exclaimed, “It looks just the same!”
Indeed, the library, with its...
The Beinecke Library’s extensive holdings in children’s literature will soon grow with the addition of the archive of renowned young-adult writer Judy Blume, opening new opportunities for future research, teaching, and exhibitions related to the field.
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While food and beverages are strictly prohibited in the Beinecke Library’s reading room and classrooms, the library’s collections are full of objects, printed items, manuscripts, and other materials related to food culture for readers to feast upon, even...
What’s a poet with a large circle of friends, rich in words if limited in financial resources, to do when checking the names off his holiday list? For Langston Hughes, during the holiday season of 1950, the answer was to share some of his wit in homemade...
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s latest building-wide exhibition, “+ The Art of Collaboration,” explores the excitement and power of how separate elements combine to make things that are new, beautiful, strange, and memorable. On view from...
“Text and Textile,” on view at Beinecke Library from May 3 through Aug. 12, explores the intersections of text and textile in literature and politics, from images of Eve spinning in a 13th-century manuscript to the mill girls of New England in the 19th...
William “Bill” Nightingale ’53, an active alumnus of Yale for 65 years, recently donated his collection of more than 300 cartoon books to the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
The Beinecke Library has long held interesting and important books...
“The North American West has been inhabited for millennia, but our vision of its history and cultures has been shaped, perhaps disproportionally, by the modern invention of photography,” says George Miles, the William Robertson Coe Curator of Western...