NEW HAVEN — The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University will reopen its iconic building on Tuesday, Sept. 6, following a 16-month renovation that upgraded the library’s ...

One of many Yale alumni in his family, Beinecke continued a legacy of giving back to the university. His father and two uncles — all Yale graduates — created the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript ...

Yale’s copy of the Gutenberg Bible, on view since 1963 in a bronze case on the mezzanine of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, is a landmark in the history of the printed word. Today, ...

A new exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library uses photography to examine the history of the American an “Eye on the West.” The exhibition, titled “Eye on the West,” includes over ...

Beinecke exhibit reflects on Samuel F. B. Morse’s legacy, Yale and slavery The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library held a drop-in session with archival materials on key documents included in the ...

NEW HAVEN >> Sixteen months after it closed for renovations, Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library will reopen on Sept. 6. The work included upgrading the library’s climate ...

NEW HAVEN -- The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, with its sublime marble slabs and glass-enclosed stacks, has gone from garish to grand. When the six-story library debuted on Wall ...

The Beinecke itself is a transporting work of art. A million rare books call it home, as do millions of manuscript pages, papyrus scrolls, photographs, maps, and drawings. Frederick Douglass stars ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn.—When Yale University’s Beinecke library opened in 1963, curators smoked at their desks and a small fire once erupted when the inaugural director flicked a lighted cigarette ...

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is the rare book library and literary archive of the Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut. Situated on Yale University's Hewitt ...

The claim: The fire suppression system of Yale's Beinecke Library causes all oxygen to leave the building, suffocating anyone inside, to preserve its rare books. Yale’s world-renowned Beinecke ...