This week marks the 50th anniversary of Yale University’s Beinecke library. It’s a world-renowned repository of rare books and manuscripts. WSHU’s Mark Herz toured the now-beloved library with its director, E. C. Shroeder. Schroeder said the modernist cube made up of large marble squares—and surrounded by gothic and neo-classical buildings—was once controversial.
Once controversial, now beloved: Yale's Beinecke Library celebrates 50 years
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Six stories of rare books and manuscripts behind glass at Beinecke Library
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The modernist exterior of Beinecke Library
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Gutenberg's Bible is five and a half centuries old. Beinecke has one of the few copies in the world
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It took Gutenberg two years to print his bible
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E. C. Schroeder says it's crucial to preserve rare books and manuscripts for future generations of researchers, and even novelists and poets
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
