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Archives and Special Collections at the Kalmanovitz Library preserves and maintains unique materials to support research and teaching in the history of the health sciences for faculty and students across all campus disciplines.
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The AIDS History Project is a collaboration of historians, archivists, AIDS activists, and others preserving the history of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. The current phase is sponsored by the University of California, Library and Center for Knowledge Management, Archives & Special Collections. The primary objective of this phase of the AIDS History Project is to secure documentation of the response to the AIDS crisis in the city of San Francisco and particularly the development and effect of community based organizations and activist coalitions. The site provides information about AIDS history project collections including images, periodicals, oral histories and institutional records. Lastly, the site has a detailed chronology of the history of AIDS in San Francisco.