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The October issue of the Digital Initiatives and Technology newsletter is now available online at http://enews.library.yale.edu/digital/october2013.html. Among other things, it features details of the upcoming New Directions for Digital Scholarship forum in November.
The following forums in April are sponsored by the Library's Standing Committee on Professional Awareness (SCOPA). Talks are free and open to the public. Increasing Library Opportunities to Work in Data-related Research: an Overview of Purdue's initiatives Jake Carlson, Data Services Specialist at...
An exhibit focusing on tobacco will open at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library on May 15th. The tobacco industry has been selling smoke in America and other countries for well over a century. From sultry ladies to Santa, tobacco advertisers slickly packaged smoking in a variety of ways to lure...
The Divinity Library is engaged in four grant-funded projects to digitize portions of its Day Missions Collection. The Day Missions Collection, founded by Yale professor George Edward Day in 1891, consists of books, periodicals, pamphlets, reports, photographs, and archival collections that...
The May issue of the Digital Initiatives & Technology Newsletter focuses on this year's third and final digitization project using Arcadia funding – that is the digitization of Hán Nôm Handwritten and Woodblock Manuscripts held in the Maurice Durand Collection. Within this fascinating...
A child survivor from Brussels, Belgium, relates her wartime experiences. She tells of her leave taking from her parents, and lovingly recalls the kindness of the priest, nuns, and childless couple who helped her survive in hiding. She also recounts her postwar reunion and experiences with her...

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