Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 8, 2008|Volume 36, Number 17

A new exhibit at the Sterling Library
examines the culture of gift giving.

Exhibition features unique
gifts from around the globe

A new exhibition at the Sterling Memorial Library showcases gifts given to Yale librarians and administrators — including Presidents Benno C. Schmidt Jr. and Richard C. Levin — during professional travels abroad or by international visitors to New Haven.

Titled “Travels with My Librarian: Professional Exchanges and Gift Culture,” it runs through Feb. 28 at the Sterling Library, 120 High St.

Gift giving is one of the oldest and most enduring social-binding forces and cuts across distances, differences and culture, notes the exhibition’s curator, Graziano Kratli, international program support librarian at Sterling Library.

“In our age of networked information, international cooperation and global issues, librarians increasingly participate in projects and activities that take them farther and farther afield, or conversely that bring colleagues and other professional visitors from overseas to their home institutions,” she writes.

University policy permits employees to accept goodwill exchange gifts worth less than $150.

The exhibition includes a range of items, from stuffed wombats from the Antipodes to textiles from Africa and Asia, decorative items from Eastern Europe, and other unique souvenirs from around the world. Also on view is a selection of official gifts given to Yale University and Levin by Chinese President Hu Jintao in April 2006.

For more information, visit the website at http://resources.library.yale.edu/online/smlexhibits.asp.

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