Prize honors literature lovers 3.05.09
Elizabeth Palazzolo’s ’11 dorm room was a little crowded Tuesday afternoon. A group of adults filed inside, squeezing around the Saybrook College sophomore’s bookshelf.
Elizabeth Palazzolo’s ’11 dorm room was a little crowded Tuesday afternoon. A group of adults filed inside, squeezing around the Saybrook College sophomore’s bookshelf.
It is an early Christmas present for Bass Library — a $4,000, 47” screen for displaying student group fliers.
Bass Library will continue its 24-hour service during reading week, but if students do not follow the rules, the program may be in jeopardy. Last semester when Bass Library first offered the service, nocturnal students taking advantage of the program to study were joined by a handful of others who brought in tents, sleeping bags, food and even alcohol into the library,...
The brains behind the YaleStation portal and Yale’s admissions decision Web site is about to unveil his latest on-campus project: A 47-inch interactive touch screen in Bass Library. Alexander Clark ’04 — who founded the software development firm Technolutions after graduating from Yale — has worked on several of Yale’s technological developments over the past eight years.
On May 25, 2006, as the Cross Campus Library was set to undergo a massive renovation that turned it into the plush Bass Library, over 100 Yale staff and faculty gathered to mark the start of construction.
In May, only seven months into what was supposed to be an 18-month-long effort to put images of 100,000 of Yale’s libraries’ books on the Web, Microsoft unexpectedly withdrew funding from its partnership with the University.
One hundred million dollars may not buy a Yale graduate’s name for one of the two new residential colleges, but the New York Public Library apparently shares no such reservations.
On Thursday evening, 10 students met with Danuta Nitecki, associate University librarian for public services, and University Planner Laura Cruickshank in Sterling Memorial Library’s lecture hall to discuss the benefits and problems with the former Cross Campus Library.
Current construction on the building will not dramatically alter the structure of the building but rather repair existing maintenance problems, beginning with repairs to the roof, Director of the Beinecke Frank Turner said.
The New Haven Free Public Library has won a new ally — the Commission on Substance Abuse Policy and Prevention.
Overall, both students and faculty-members laud the results of the renovations for the brand-new feel they brought to once unwelcoming, fluorescent-lit library. But, they say, more can be done to enhance the studying and dining experience at Bass Library — something both administrators and students say they are working toward already.
Published in 2006, the “Yale Book of Quotations” is a reference book that challenges the established quotation collection that is “Bartlett’s Book of Quotations” in part by placing particular — and, to a certain degree, unprecedented — emphasis on modern-day American quotations.