Music Theory Yale People in the News Yale People in the News Barbara A. Shailor of Rutgers University will be the new director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Since 1996 Shailor has been dean of Douglass College at Rutgers, where she is also professor of classics. She is a specialist in Latin manuscript studies, the transmission of classical texts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and women in classical antiquity and the Middle Ages. Since its opening in 1963, the Beinecke Library has assumed a leading role among the world's major rare book and manuscript collections as a center for advanced research in the humanities.
Collections range from ancient papyri to the avant-garde.
Shailor will take up her new duties this summer. Until then, Patricia C. Willis, the Elizabeth Wakeman Dwight Curator of the Collection of American Literature, is serving as acting director. Ralph Franklin, who directed the Beinecke Library for 18 years, retired in December 2000. D.C. The recipients were selected by President William J. Clinton '73 J.D . He joined the Yale faculty in 1955 and retired in 1986.