Track our rare book acquisitions via RSS feed

The Yale Law Library’s online catalog, MORRIS, now provides an easy, automated way to learn about our recent rare book collections. You can subscribe to an RSS feed, “New Additions to Yale Law Library’s Rare Book Collection,” by adding this link, http://morris.law.yale.edu/feeds/rarebooks.xml, to your favorite RSS feed reader, such as Google Reader or Live Bookmarks. A list of all the available RSS feeds from MORRIS can be found here.

The feed reports the most recently cataloged rare book acquisitions, such as Clarence Darrow’s The Skeleton in the Closet (Riverside, Conn.: F.C. Bursch, 1914). We purchased this little booklet from Meyer Boswell Books, who described it as “The first separate issuance of the first of Darrow’s ‘two major attempts at literature’, long to underpin his philosophical view of life as ‘a never-ending school [teaching us] to turn from [its] … dire defeats to the mastery of ourselves’.”

Thanks to Mary Jane Kelsey, our Associate Librarian for Technical Services, for making this possible.

MIKE WIDENER
Rare Book Librarian