Posted by Jean M. Rainwater on July 20, 2010
The Library recently honored staff members who are retiring under the University’s Voluntary Staff Retirement Incentive (VSRI) program. This group of twenty staff members has given over 600 years of devoted service to Brown University. They will be missed!
The twenty retiring staff members are: Millie Brown, Janet Crager, Lois D’Alfonso, Nori Duncan, Ron Fark. Jim Hannon, Ed Hayslip, Rick Hurdis, Michael Jackson, Elva Mathiesen, Ann Patrick, Leslie Patterson, Tovah Reis, Jane Shea, Barbara Spaulding, Sam Streit, Carol Thomas, Steve L. Thompson, Suzanne Williams and Lindsay Woodel.
Retirees Jim Hannon, Elva Mathiesen, Ann Patrick, Millie Brown, Lois D'Alfonso, Sherran Smith, Ron Fark, Tovah Reis and Ed Hayslip at the Library's Retirement Celebration on June 16, 2010 at the Faculty Club.
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Posted by Yvonne Federowicz on July 14, 2010
An exhibit in Honor of the SALALM LV Congress
Curated by Kenneth Ward and Patricia Figueroa
Held at these two locations:
John Hay Library, June 28-August 3, 2010. M-F 10:00-5:00.
John Carter Brown Library, June 28 – September 19, 2010. M-F 8:30-5:00, S 9:00-12:00.
Melchor Pérez de Soto, a Mexican astrologer and architect, built one of the most impressive private collections of printed books in 17th Century Mexico. According to an inventory of its library made by clerks of the Inquisition, the collection contained 1,592 volumes, covered various disciplines, and represented authors from the classical to contemporary periods.
During the last five years of his life, the Holy Office gathered evidence on perceived heretical activities carried out by Pérez de Soto which included practicing astrology and owning prohibited books. He was arrested by the officers of the Inquisition on January 13, 1655, and spent several weeks in solitary confinement. He was found dead in his prison cell on March 17 of the same year.
This exhibit illustrates the depth and breadth of the Pérez de Soto private collection and provides a glimpse into one of the finest minds among humanists in colonial Mexico.
Sponsored by Brown University Library, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the John Carter Brown Library
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Posted by Yvonne Federowicz on July 2, 2010
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 “Bohemian Waxwing”.
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.
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