News

Selected stories from the Beinecke Library, YaleNews, and external media outlets (the latter noted by source in parentheses after title of article).

Robert Giard photographed over 600 LGBTQ writers—5 of them share their stories (Document)
June 28, 2019
Before Stonewall: Secret scrapbooks uncover how gay people were criminalised (The Irish Times)
June 27, 2019
Photographer and writer Carl Van Vechten documented queer experiences in the decades before the 1969 riots
These Queer PhotoBooks Changed My Life (aperture)
June 27, 2019
Eleven curators, writers, and artists reflect on images of queer identity past and present.
Yale Library to Display Copy of Declaration of Independence (WVIT NBC Connecticut)
June 23, 2019
Exhibit will show rare copy of Declaration of Independence (WTNH News 8)
June 23, 2019
A Not-So-Simple Love Story: Even in the photos, it’s rarely black and white (Literary Review of Canada)
June 22, 2019
We hold these truths ... Declaration of Independence on view June 27 - July 11, 2019
June 20, 2019

The Beinecke Library marks the 243rd anniversary of the nation’s founding with a special display of a major document of United States history from its...
Papirologia, congresso internazionale a Lecce (Gironale di Puglia)
June 19, 2019
Patience and a steady hand: Increasing diversity in art conservation
June 17, 2019
Nyberg: Michael Childers, world renowned celebrity portrait photographer (WTNH)
June 13, 2019
Marinetti, il futurismo a Lodi (il Cittadino)
June 12, 2019
President Mokgweetsi Masisi of Botswana visits Yale
June 11, 2019
22 Photos of LGBTQ Writers, Artists, & Activists of the '80s and '90s: Robert Giard (The Advocate)
June 7, 2019
Summer 2019 access
June 3, 2019

Please note: there are construction activities nearby the library, across the plaza and on Wall and High Streets, in 2019 and 2020. The library remains open...
Yale Marks Walt Whitman's 200th Birthday With Pop-Up Exhibit (WSHU Radio)
May 31, 2019
Paparazzi learned from this guy; Beinecke displays Jerome Zerbe exhibit (New Haven Register)
May 31, 2019
Jerome Zerbe has been called the first paparazzo, but don’t think of him in the modern sense, says Timothy Young, curator of modern books at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library on Wall Street in New Haven.
Yale Exhibit Shows Work Of Jerome Zerbe, Class Of ’28, And America’s First Paparazzo (WSHU Public Radio)
May 28, 2019
Beinecke Curator Nancy Kuhl Honored for Extraordinary Service to Biography
May 24, 2019

Nancy Kuhl, curator of poetry in the Yale Collection of American Literature , has been awarded the 2019 Biblio Award for Extraordinary Service to Biographers...
Comics & the Superpowers of Catalog/Metadata Librarians: Beinecke Illuminated visual podcast no. 2
May 23, 2019

Our visual podcasts series takes you behind the scenes of the work, collections, and programs of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. In the second...
Pa-Pa-Paparazzi at the Beinecke (Fine Books & Collections Magazine)
May 21, 2019