Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
Elizabeth Palazzolo’s ’11 dorm room was a little crowded Tuesday afternoon. A group of adults filed inside, squeezing around the Saybrook College sophomore’s bookshelf. But when the conversation turned to the shelf’s contents, Palazzolo said, everyone was more at ease. Her guests were there to judge her collection of books on classical civilization, history and...
It is an early Christmas present for Bass Library — a $4,000, 47” screen for displaying student group fliers. Yale’s Office of Student Affairs will install the LCD monitor — a virtual poster board — sometime next week in the Bass Library’s Thain Family Café. The $4,000 screen will display a virtual bulletin board like the one on the YaleStation Web site, as...
Bass Library will continue its 24-hour service during reading week, but if students do not follow the rules, the program may be in jeopardy. Last semester when Bass Library first offered the service, nocturnal students taking advantage of the program to study were joined by a handful of others who brought in tents, sleeping bags, food and even alcohol into the library...
The brains behind the YaleStation portal and Yale’s admissions decision Web site is about to unveil his latest on-campus project: A 47-inch interactive touch screen in Bass Library. Alexander Clark ’04 — who founded the software development firm Technolutions after graduating from Yale — has worked on several of Yale’s technological developments over the past...
On May 25, 2006, as the Cross Campus Library was set to undergo a massive renovation that turned it into the plush Bass Library, over 100 Yale staff and faculty gathered to mark the start of construction. A cake was served with “Farewell Original CCL” written in icing. Attendees stood among balloons and empty shelves. University Librarian Alice Prochaska donned a...
After the recent collapse of an ambitious digitization project, most of Yale’s books will remain exclusively on shelves — at least for now. In May, only seven months into what was supposed to be an 18-month-long effort to put images of 100,000 of Yale’s libraries’ books on the Web, Microsoft unexpectedly withdrew funding from its partnership with the University...
One hundred million dollars may not buy a Yale graduate’s name for one of the two new residential colleges, but the New York Public Library apparently shares no such reservations. The name of Davenport College alumnus and one-time School of Management adjunct professor Stephen Schwarzman ’69 will soon grace the New York Public Library building in five different...
Although Bass Library has been open for seven months, students sat down with University officials for the first time last night to formally discuss the library’s functionality. On Thursday evening, 10 students met with Danuta Nitecki, associate University librarian for public services, and University Planner Laura Cruickshank in Sterling Memorial Library’s lecture...
For the first time since a new roof was installed in the ’80s, a wall of metal scaffolding climbs up the High Street side of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscripts Library. Current construction on the building will not dramatically alter the structure of the building but rather repair existing maintenance problems, beginning with repairs to the roof, Director of the...
The New Haven Free Public Library has won a new ally — the Commission on Substance Abuse Policy and Prevention. In order to promote awareness of the potentially fatal consequences of alcohol, the New Haven Commission on Substance Abuse Policy and Prevention on Wednesday kicked off National Awareness Month — a series of lectures, presentations and workshops designed...
In just five months, a new underground culture has taken shape at Yale — literally. Last fall, students may have passed over Cross Campus on their way to class or to Commons without a second thought. But ever since that October night when the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Library formally opened its doors at midnight to a crowd of over 1,000 students, the library has...
The end of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign after the Iowa caucuses was a blow to the Delaware senator’s supporters, staff and — at least in a sense — to Fred Shapiro, author of the “Yale Book of Quotations.” After all, for Shapiro, who is also a librarian at Yale Law School, Biden’s penchant for controversy made him the perfect source of unforgettable...
