An introductory tour of the Beinecke Library, its mission, history, architecture, collections, and services, led by a library staff or student guide. Tours last approximately 45 minutes. Reservations are not required. Note: see the library’s website (beinecke.library.yale.edu) for current public health protocols and other important visitor information.
An introductory tour of the Beinecke Library, its mission, history, architecture, collections, and services, led by a library staff or student guide. Tours last approximately 45 minutes. Reservations are not required. Note: see the library’s website (beinecke.library.yale.edu) for current public health protocols and other important visitor information.
Visit the Beinecke Library website for daily hours and other visitor information.
The Beinecke Library marks the 247th anniversary of the nation’s founding with a special display of vital documents of United States history from Yale Library special collections.
Visit the Beinecke Library website for daily hours and other visitor information. Note: library closed for winter recess beginning on Friday, December 23, through Monday, January 2, and reopens on Tuesday, January 3, 2023.
Yale University President Peter Salovey presents the 2022 awards in drama, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and former United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey delivers the annual Windham-Campbell Lecture “Why I Write.”
Trethewey will be introduced by Meghan O’Rourke, editor of The Yale Review.
The lecture will also be livestreamed on the Windham-Campbell YouTube channel
To mark Independence Day 2023, the Beinecke Library continues its tradition of public readings on July 5 at 4pm on the library mezzanine of the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, and of the oration by Frederick Douglass given on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, in which he asked: “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?”
Please join us to celebrate the opening of “We are Everywhere: Lesbians in the Archive.” Curator Gabrielle Colangelo will provide a tour of this exciting exhibition and will be available for questions and conversation over light refreshments afterward. No registration is necessary.
Free registration: https://bit.ly/3KJI8E9
Yale College Poets: an annual reading by outstanding undergraduate poets co-sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Library and the Creative Writing Program of the Yale Department of English. This year’s readers are: Edie Abraham-Macht, Hailey Andrews, Jisoo Choi, Gabrielle Colangelo, Adin Feder, Danny Germino-Watnick, Vaughn Goehrig, Charlotte Keathley, Aaron Magloire, Bryce Morales, Nyeda Regina Stewart, and Chie Xu
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3KyPjiZ
Celebrated playwright-educators discuss the role of archives and historical research in their creative practice and how there are envisioning their own archival presence
Sarah Ruhl, Playwright
Paula Vogel, Playwright
in conjunction with the exhibition, Brava! Women Make American Theater, organized by Melissa Barton, Beinecke Library curator of drama and prose. https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/brava
