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Celebrate National Poetry Month with Matt Miller, Associate Professor of English, who will introduce his book on Walt Whitman as the final of three Library Book Talks for the 2018-2019 academic year. Elinor Grumet, Reference and Instruction Librarian, will interview Professor Miller about his ...

Happy Fair Use Week! Fair Use Week 2019 runs from February 25 through March 1 and promotes the awareness and significance of this valuable legal doctrine that provides the framework through which use may be made of copyrighted material without permission. This limitation on creators’ intellectual…

Sandra (Sandy) Moore has been named the new Head Librarian for Pollack Library. Hedi Steinberg Library on the Beren Campus has been awarded a grant from Assemblywoman Nily Rozic through DASNY (Dormitory Authority of the State of New York) for a dedicated research instruction facility and ...

Sandy Moore On January 22, 2019 Yeshiva University welcomed Pollack Library's new Head Librarian, Sandra Moore. Sandy comes to us from Allen Community College in Iola, Kansas, where she served as Library Director and Academic Support Division Chair. In those roles she reported to the Vice President…

Much has been written recently about the importance of this past January 1 to scholars and members of the creative professions. Referred to as the annual Public Domain Day, it was of particular significance this year because the extension from 75 to 95 years since publication of the copyright term…

Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry poster, Yeshiva University Archives, SSSJ Records “Big Brother is Watching Them. Our Brothers are Waiting for Us,” was the message of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry in 1984. Today you are welcome to watch and listen to Soviet Jewry activists reminisce about…

Please encourage your students to take advantage of instructional services at the YU Libraries by including the following in your syllabi: Get all the support you need with research for your courses. The Yeshiva University Libraries (library.yu.edu) offer individualized consultations that will help…

Yeshiva University notice in the New York Times, April 10, 1968 Yeshiva University published this announcement in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the New York Times on April 10, 1968, six days after his tragic assassination on April 4, 1968, and a day after his funeral on April 9. In ...