Yale Bulletin and Calendar

September 30, 2005|Volume 34, Number 5

This image from the holdings at the Divinity Library showing spinning silk at West China Union University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, will be on view at the fair.

Special Collections Fair will feature
rare look at unique items

A selection of unique items from special collections at libraries across the campus will be on view at a fair to be held noon-4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6, in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St.

The event is free, and the public is welcome. The event is coordinated by the Yale Library Special Collections Committee and hosted by the Beinecke Library.

The Special Collections Fair offers the public a unique opportunity to see the vast range of Yale's holdings under one roof -- including artifacts, maps, documents and recorded media covering more than 5,000 years of human endeavor.

Among the many items on display will be original drawings from the papers of architect Eero Saarinen held at Manuscripts and Archives in Sterling Memorial Library; photographs documenting silk production in China in the 1920s and 1930s from the Divinity Library; and materials related to the manuscript account by Anna Larpent of the Duchess of Kingston's trial for bigamy of 1776 from the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut.

Curators and collection staff will be available to answer questions about exhibits and the use of their collections. Representatives will be on hand from the Arts Library, which includes the Arts of the Book Collection; the Yale University Art Gallery; the Babylonian Collection; the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; the Yale Center for British Art; the Divinity Library; the Historical Medical Library; the Lewis Walpole Library; Manuscripts and Archives, including the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies; the Map Collection; the Music Library, including Historical Sound Recordings; the Oral History American Music Collection; and the Conservation and Preservation Departments.

For further information about the Special Collections Fair, contact Martha Smalley at martha.smalley@yale.edu or (203) 432-6374.

Yale's spectrum of library resources includes more than 11 million volumes and information in all media, from ancient papyri to electronic databases. The Yale University Library is an international research library, visited by scholars from all over the world, and a partner in teaching and research at the University. The Yale Library is engaged in numerous projects to expand access to its collections. Housed in 22 buildings including the Sterling Memorial and Beinecke libraries, it employs a staff of nearly 600. For additional information on the Yale University Library, including its hours of service and digitized versions of some of its unique collections, visit www.library.yale.edu.

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