On Monday January 7, 2019, the Yale University Library retired the Yale Finding Aid Database (YFAD) interface.  Archives at Yale is now the primary interface to search Yale's finding aids. If you have any questions or concerns about the retirement of YFAD, please direct them to yulyams@mailman.yale.edu.

Now the Manuscripts and Archives Reading Room, this was once Yale's Rare Book Room.

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Students in HIST 134J, Yale and America, exploring Manuscripts and Archives collection materials in the new Gates classroom.
The New Gates Classroom in Manuscripts and Archives

It has been seven months since our move back into our beautifully renovated public service spaces in the Wall Street wing of Sterling Memorial Library. We’ve had a semester and a summer of Yale students and other researchers back in full force, enjoying the modernized lighting, comfortable and functional furniture, state-of-the-art climate control, and the relative quiet that has resulted from relocating all staff not primarily responsible for public service operations out of the reading room area. The renovation has been deemed an unqualified success by both researchers and staff members!

Clippings relating to Dorothy Hadley’s marriage Malaku Bayen, circa 1931. Dorothy Hadley Bayen Papers (MS 1570), Box 1, Folder 3.
An African American Woman in Haile Selassie’s Ethiopia

In 1931, Dorothy Hadley of Evanston, Illinois, married Prince Malaku Bayen of Ethiopia, Nephew of Haile Selassie I. Malaku Bayen was studying to be a doctor at Howard University, and upon the completion of his degree, he returned with Dorothy Hadley Bayen and their son Chip to Ethiopia.