To ensure timely receipt of needed library material while most library users are away from campus, the library will be suppressing the recall request option during June and July. Though essential recalls may be placed with library staff assistance, we are encouraging use of the library’s direct borrowing services whenever Brown library material is not readily available during this period.
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Audubon’s “Hutchinson’s Barnacle Goose” on display in the John Hay Library
A volume of John James Audubon’s master work, The Birds of America, is on display on the main floor of the John Hay Library. Each plate will be on display for only one month. This month’s bird is the “Hutchinson’s Barnacle Goose”, aka the Canada Goose.
This elephant folio edition of The Birds of America, bound in six volumes, was presented by Albert E. Lownes to the Library on the occasion of his 50th class reunion in 1970.
For more information please contact hay@brown.edu
Battle Dogs: A Selection of War Dog Art from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection
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June 3 – August 30, 2009
John Hay Library, Bopp Seminar Room
20 Prospect Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
» Library Hours
Dogs have become associated with warfare, as the ‘hounds of war’ or Marine Corps bulldogs. They symbolize tenacity and resilience, but also ferocity and terror. They are an effective weapon, but more than just another piece of equipment. They can overcome the best of human technology, through their superior senses, but are vulnerable to the elements the same way that humans are.
This exhibit explores dogs as a metaphor, warriors, companions, and mascots using items from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection.
Exhibition design by Miranda Summers, AM’09 Public Humanities. For further information contact Peter Harrington.
Image: “The dog that saved the regiment,” painted by Gayle Porter Hoskins for the Ladies’ Home Journal Souvenir Pictures of the Great War.
Audubon’s Great White Heron on Display at John Hay Library
A volume of John James Audubon’s master work, The Birds of America, is on display on the main floor of the John Hay Library. Each plate will be on display for only one month. This month’s bird is the “Great White Heron”.
This elephant folio edition of The Birds of America, bound in six volumes, was presented by Albert E. Lownes to the Library on the occasion of his 50th class reunion in 1970.
For more information please contact hay@brown.edu
In Celebration of GLBT Pride
June 2009
John Hay Library, Lobby
20 Prospect Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
» Library Hours
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots (June 28, 1969), when over 1000 gays, lesbians, and transvestites confronted police during a violent encounter at the Stonewall Inn, a popular bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City. This event marked the beginning of the “Gay Liberation” movement in the United States. The Stonewall Inn is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
This event is celebrated annually as part of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered (GLBT) Pride events across the nation. The first Gay Pride parade in Providence was in 1976, despite attempts to block it by city and state officials. Details on it can be found in Hubert Kennedy’s Coming Out in Providence. The first parade with less than 100 participants has grown to over 25,000. Part of the mission of the RI Pride Committee is to “Provide safe opportunities and venues for people to come out and express and celebrate their sexual identities.”
The Richard G. Katzoff Collection
The collection, named in honor of Richard G. Katzoff and housed in the John Hay Library at Brown University, consists primarily of literary works relating to gays and lesbians, with a small component of history and sociology; most are U.S. publications. The core of the Collection is the gift of books, primarily novels dating from the 1970s and 1980s, received in 1991 from the estate of Richard Katzoff, supplemented by the library and personal writings of John Preston, journalist, author and editor of gay literature (the Library also houses Preston’s papers). In addition, the Collection includes the publications of Larry Townsend (sadomasochistic fiction and pictorial erotica), many books from the library of Edmund White, an extensive collection of contemporary lesbian fiction, and many other smaller donations of gay and lesbian writings. Materials continue to be added to the Collection by gift and purchase; an endowment has been established for that purpose by the Katzoff family. The more recent acquisitions include a 30,000-item collection of gay pulp fiction dating primarily from the 1950s and 1960s.
Image: Bookplate for the Richard G. Katzoff Collection
Staff Development Day
Join staff from the Library at presentations related to work-life balance, special collections, music databases, and special collections including the following sessions:
- The Center for Digital Initiatives: Bringing Library Collections to the Web
- Getting the Most Out of the Library
- The Course of History-Rediscovered Maps Tell the Tale
- So Many Tunes, So Little Time
- The Balancing Act