Challenges and Opportunities for Yale: Revitalizing the 21st-Century Academic Research Library

In 1924, famed professor Chauncey Brewster Tinker wrote that “there are three distinguishing marks of a university: a group of students, a corps of instructors, and a collection of books — and of these, the most important is the collection of books.” In this talk, Daniel Dollar will explain how collections, expertise, place and network are essential to an academic research library today, and discuss plans to revitalize Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library leading up to its 2031 centennial.

Saturday, May 25, 2024, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
William L. Harkness Hall, Room 119, 100 Wall Street
Yale University
New Haven
New Haven CT 06520