James Baldwin’s “children’s book for adults,” Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood went quickly and quietly out of print when it was originally published by Dial Press back in 1976. In this talk, Nicholas Boggs discusses his rediscovery of the book over two decades ago at the Beinecke and its path to an acclaimed new edition published by Duke University Press in 2018. In the process, he provides an overview of the growth of the Baldwin archives in the Walter O.

Curators Anna Arays and Liliya Dashevski will talk in conjunction with their exhibition Subjects and Objects, Slavic Collections at Yale, 1896–2022, at the Hanke Gallery in Sterling Memorial Library.
Zoom webinar registration link: https://bit.ly/3Utn8qT
(Exhibition information: https://library.yale.edu/event/subjects-and-objects-slavic-collections-y…)

Kristen Herdman, a PhD Candidate in the Medieval Studies program, will discuss the current building-wide exhibition, The World in Maps, 1400-1600. (Exhibition information: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/worldinmaps; more on Herdman: https://medieval.yale.edu/people/kristen-herdman)
Her talk will touch on some of the more unusual map items in the collections – embroidered maps, map playing cards, maps of imaginary places, etc.

Part of Mondays at Beinecke online, a virtual series of gallery talks every Monday at 4pm.
Kathryn James is the Rare Book Librarian at the Lillian Goldman Law Library. Fred Shapiro is Associate (Library) Director for Collections and Special Projects and Lecturer in Legal Research at Yale Law School.
Talks begin at 4pm followed by conversation and question and answer beginning about 4:30pm until 5pm.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3RfqjQn

A talk in conjunction with the quasquibicentennial of the Grove Street Cemetery. A neighbor to the library in New Haven, it is the nation’s oldest cemetery organized as a city of the dead. The first burial was on November 7, 1797.