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Opinion: Will Yale respect the heart of the university?
Dolores Colon
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On Monday, my colleagues and I are planning to deliver a petition calling on Barbara Rockenbach, the Yale University librarian, to protect our jobs from subcontracting.
At the Yale University Library, where I’ve worked since 1992, my colleagues and I are responsible for 15 million print and electronic volumes, including one of the world’s most prized collections of rare books and manuscripts. Although Yale regards the library as “the heart of the university,” years of understaffing have created a backlog in our special collections, with materials inaccessible to students and researchers until they are cataloged.
“The firefighters were heroic, they were smashing away the wall between the two buildings, standing on the roof, doing their utmost to keep our building from the worst of the fire. We had to make fast calls. We had little time to scour the building and make decisions before the fire department entered and began the process of hosing it down.”
Sara de Beer describes the fire that almost burned down Cape Town’s A4 Arts Foundation in December 2020. The space housed irreplaceable work by artists from across southern Africa.
But what do you do when your precious archive of art and books is about to be destroyed?
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 6, 2021) American theatre researchers will benefit from the major discovery of correspondence between two of the nation’s most storied playwrights Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill. University of Kentucky Professor Herman Daniel Farrell III, a playwright and noted O’Neill scholar, found the letter while doing research in the archives at Yale University.
The newly discovered letter gives readers an idea of the impact the two celebrated artists had on the other. The correspondence, penned by the critically acclaimed Williams in 1945 not long after the success of his work The Glass Menagerie speaks to his appreciation of a new work of Nobel Prize laureate O’Neill The Iceman Cometh. Williams’ letter expressed admiration for O’Neill’s play describing it as “an unique dramatic achievement.”