Book Collecting

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This collection of podcasts features library curators, professors and visiting lecturers speaking about collecting books or the many collections of books at the Yale libraries.

Episodes

  1. 08/09/2010

    (In Mandarin) Yale's East Asia Library

    A tour and description in Mandarin of Yale's East Asia Library, one of the largest and most important collections of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean materials in the United States.

    8 min

  2. 08/09/2010

    Gay Rights Movement Microfilm Collection

    Kelly Barrick describes the Gay Rights Movement microfilm collection, a rich resource for the study of the LGBTQ community and its history, both in the United States and internationally.

    5 min

  3. 08/09/2010

    (In Arabic) The Yale Near East Collection

    Curator Simon Samoeil gives an overview of the history and resources of the Yale Library's Near East Collection. The collection supports Near Eastern, Islamic, and Arabic studies at Yale. This podcast is in Arabic.

    7 min

  4. 08/09/2010

    The Yale Near East Collection

    Curator Simon Samoeil gives an overview of the history and resources of the Yale Library's Near East Collection. The collection supports Near Eastern, Islamic, and Arabic studies at Yale.

    5 min

  5. 08/09/2010

    Treasures from the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library Special Collections

    This exhibition celebrates the treasures and special collections of Yale's newly opened Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library in the Paul Rudolph Building and Loria Center for the History of Art.

    12 min

  6. 08/09/2010

    The Yale Collection of Mountaineering Literature

    The Yale Collection of Mountaineering Literature in Sterling Memorial Library includes contemporary and historical material on all aspects of mountaineering and in many languages.

    6 min

  7. 08/09/2010

    Unfolding the Corners: Intimacy in the Archive of Margaret Anderson

    Book Collecting

    1 sec

  8. 08/09/2010

    David Alan Richards on collecting Rudyard Kipling

    David Alan Richards talks about how his collection of editions of Rudyard Kipling became the largest in the world and how it is now part of the collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale. Recorded at the closing of the exhibition: Rudyard Kipling: The Books I Leave Behind. A catalogue of the exhibition is available from Yale University Press. (September 14, 2007)

    12 min

  9. 08/09/2010

    Jane Wodening and Stan Brakhage scrapbooks, 1958-1967

    Richard Deming, lecturer in the Department of English at Yale University, describes the scrapbooks, compiled by Jane Wodening, documenting the work and family life of Wodening and the avant-garde filmaker Stan Brakhage from 1958 to 1967.

    16 min

  10. 12/04/2008

    Steal Not This Book: Collecting and Cataloging the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection

    Betsy Beinecke Shirley, daughter of Walter Beinecke, Yale class of 1910, donated her incomparable American children's literature collection to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Formed over the course of more than three decades, it is one of the largest and most diverse collections of its kind. Librarian Ellen Ellickson speaks with Tim Young, Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts about the collection.

    1 sec

  11. 07/28/2008

    The Gutenberg Bible at the Beinecke

    Dr. William Whobrey, Assistant Dean of Yale College, discusses Johannes Gutenberg, Yale's copy of his 42-line bible, and the significance of his invention of moveable type. The Gutenberg Bible is in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library collection.

    8 min
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