In response to many requests, the Library has recently purchased the Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO) database. The 180,000 titles represented in the collection now have records in Josiah, the Library’s online catalog.
Consisting of books, pamphlets, broadsides, and ephemera, ECCO includes every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Subjects range across many disciplines, including history, language, literature, science, religion, and law. Also included are significant collections of women writers of the eighteenth century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous eighteenth-century editions of the works of Shakespeare. Where they add scholarly value or contain important differences, multiple editions of each individual work are offered.’
For more about ECCO, please see:
http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/dispBasicSearch.do?prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=prov98893
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Audubon’s “Sandhill Crane” on Display at John Hay Library
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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 “Sandhill Crane”. Audubon mis-identified this bird, as he thought it was a young Whooping Crane.
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