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April 25, 2008

Schwarzman ’69 to be honored on library wall

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...

April 25, 2008

Elis, officials formally discuss Bass

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...

April 14, 2008

Beinecke undergoes repair efforts

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...

April 3, 2008

National alcohol-awareness month opens at city library

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...

March 25, 2008

Under Cross Campus, a bustling Bass

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...

January 18, 2008

For Shapiro, candidates’ verbal gaffes are gems

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...

December 5, 2007

Report finds race profiling did not occur

Yale University library staff did not racially profile a library employee last month, according to a report released Tuesday following a three-day investigation by Yale’s Office for Equal Opportunity Programs, library and Local 34 union officials said. University Librarian Alice Prochaska said the report’s conclusions reaffirmed her previous refusal to apologize for...

December 3, 2007

Donors mingle at rededication bash for Bass

A few years ago, University President Richard Levin dispatched one of his senior aides to tour a distinguished family around the University. The family, whose daughter was applying to colleges, asked to see Yale’s most popular undergraduate library. The aide paused. First she took the family to the library in Berkeley College. Next, she tried to pass off Sterling...

December 3, 2007

Library cafe lowers prices after criticism

Although the Thain Family Cafe in Bass Library has gone out of its way to avoid becoming another Machine City in aesthetic and atmosphere, it is now learning a lesson from its less trendy predecessor — cheaper is better. During Friday’s library dedication ceremony, when the former Bass Library Cafe acquired its new name, University President Richard Levin announced...

November 30, 2007

Wood-varnished Bass improves on CCL … sort of

It is peculiar that the most popular study space at Yale — a university so revered for its architecture — is a basement. The two underground levels of Bass Library, however, are sumptuously decorated, equaling in material beauty the interiors of Yale’s other recently renovated buildings. The space — I hesitate to call it a building — is certainly better...

November 28, 2007

Library staff accused of race profiling

After 26 years of working with Yale’s libraries, Oct. 23 would have been just another day on the job for Bernard Rogers. But standing outside the Sealy G. Mudd library with his friend James Jones that fall afternoon, Rogers took $20 from Jones as repayment for a debt and lent him his car key for a few hours. There was only one problem. A Mudd library manager spotted...

November 9, 2007

Microsoft contracted to digitize library in 2008

A year from now, 100,000 books from Yale’s libraries will be available online. Just don’t try to search for them on Google. The University announced last week that it has joined forces with Microsoft to digitize thousands of books from Yale’s library system. The partnership comes just a month after a consortium of 19 academic and research libraries around New...