Security Policy

  • All visitors to the Academy Library are now required to register for a Library Visitor's Card. Please stop by the Reference Desk at your next visit, with your picture ID, to receive your Visitor's Card.

  • No parcels or bags larger than 12" high and 12" wide and 2" deep may be brought into the Library (backpacks, laptop cases, large purses, and briefcases included). These items must be checked in the coatroom located on the main floor.

  • Outerwear must be checked in the coatroom located on the main floor. Suit jackets are allowed.

  • Food and drink, including water, are prohibited in the Library.

  • Cameras are not permitted in the Library without prior arrangement. If you are interested in photographing library materials, please contact Historical Collections at (212) 822-7313 or history@nyam.org. To photograph the interior space of the Library, please contact the Education and Conference Center, (212) 822-7235.

  • The New York Academy of Medicine reserves the right to inspect all parcels and bags brought into the Academy building.

Special Public Event

The NYAM Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health Presents:

"Of Wards and War": The Importance of Good and Bad Medical Care in the American Civil War

Wednesday, February 8, 2012
5:30PM-7:00PM

Margaret Humphreys, the Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine at Duke University, will present a paper outlining the components of the best and worst of Civil War medicine, and argue that the conditions in southern hospitals were so far inferior to those of the north that it probably made a difference to the war effort.

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Announcement

S class materials are being returned to the Library and should be
available in January of 2012.

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