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History of the rise and progress of the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library at Yale University

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Jesse Vestermark
Jesse Vestermark*
Affiliation:
Robert E. Kennedy Library, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407, USA
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Email: jvesterm@calpoly.edu
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Abstract

This article casts a wide net over the key events, people, locations and collections that shaped the development of the Arts Library at Yale University, beginning with its inception as a humble departmental collection. While the physical spaces that have housed the library have undergone tumultuous changes over the years, the collections themselves have evolved in ways both unique to Yale and universal to the field of librarianship. In autumn 2008, the library was re-christened the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library and it is now housed within the renovated Paul Rudolph Hall and the newly constructed addition, the Jeffrey H. Loria Center for the History of Art.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , 2011 , pp. 5 - 11
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2011

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