Basie Bales Gitlin '10 received a B.A. in history from Yale College and an M.Phil. in history from Pembroke College, Cambridge. He currently serves as senior director of development and external affairs for Yale University Library and Yale Collections. In this role, he bridges Yale’s cultural heritage institutions and the office of alumni affairs and development. He has worked at Yale since 2012 and serves as a fellow and advisor in Davenport College, Librarian of the Elizabethan Club, and Co-Chair of Yale’s Adrian Van Sinderen Book Collecting Prize.

An active Yale volunteer, he has interviewed prospective Yale students for the ASC, served terms on the Yale Club of New Haven and Yale Alumni Fund boards, and co-chaired his 5^th and 15^th Reunion Gift Committees. Outside of Yale, he has served on the Advisory Council of the American Trust for the British Library and on the boards of the Grolier Club, the New Haven Museum, and the Mory’s Association. With his father, Jay Gitlin ’71, he has co-authored an article on Elihu Yale and a book-length history of Mory’s as well as several articles and reviews focused on the history of the book.