The Yale Divinity Library is one of the few libraries in the world that contains a prayer chapel. When the Divinity School was renovated in 2001, the former Byzantine chapel was included within the the library. Since it was impractical to make this space into a seminar room, the chapel was...
Doctors in New York and California have diagnosed among homosexual men 41 cases of a rare and often rapidly fatal form of cancer. Eight of the victims died less than 24 months after the diagnosis was made
– LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, “RARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS.” New York Times, Jul 03, 1981.
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The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University has acquired an archive of approximately 100 letters by renowned writer James Baldwin, and a typescript draft of his third novel, “Another Country,” with his handwritten annotations.
The archive constitutes one of the largest...
This exhibit, currently on view in the Cushing Rotunda at the Yale Medical Library, includes the 1971 printing of Our Bodies Ourselves which sold for 35 cents, the first illustrated book on gymnastics and sports medicine published in 1569, a medical manuscript from Vietnam, and The Pathology...
Sterling Memorial Library (SML) will be closed on Saturday, June 7, to facilitate construction work related to the restoration of the SML nave. Although the collections and study spaces in SML will be unavailable that day, other Yale libraries will be open during their regular Saturday hours. These...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 4:00 PM
Kline Biology Tower (KBT), CSSSI 24/7 Study Room
219 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511 M
odern 3D acquisition systems are able to rapidly digitize an object geometry with high accuracy and resolution, producing massive digital models with billions of samples....
Thursday, September 19, 4:00 pm
International Room in Sterling Memorial Library
All are welcome to come and hear the fascinating story of the "Harimaze" folding screens. Housed for much of the last century in the Beinecke as part of the Yale Association of Japan (YAJ) collection, the "...
