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 “Rock Ptarmigan”.
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.
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 “Band-tailed Pigeon”.
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.
The Center for Digital Scholarship has just completed work on the digital archive for the Pembroke Record. From 1923 to 1970, the Pembroke Record documented and commented upon life at Pembroke College in Brown University. Although the Pembroke Record ceased publishing decades ago, it has remained a valuable archival resource and an irreplaceable part of the history of women at Brown University.
With generous funding from the Pembroke Center, the Center for Digital Scholarship was able to digitize the entire paper archive and prepare a fully text-searchable version.
Visit the Pembroke Record Digital Archive
Reference works
A Country Study: Haiti
Facts on File
The Hutchinson unabridged encyclopedia including atlas
Economy
Haiti in the Balance
Republic of Haiti
Health Survey
Haiti (USAID)
History
The History of Haiti
The Making of Haiti: the Saint Domingue revolution from below
Taking Haiti: military occupation and the culture of U.S. imperialism, 1915-1940
Voodoo
Vodou in Haitian Life and Culture : Invisible Powers
For a detailed history of the Haitian Revolution, consult Kona Shen’s ’10 web site The Haitian Revolution, 1492-1805. Kona Shen’s research project won one of the two 2009 Undergraduate Awards for Excellence in Library Research.
For additional resources, consult the:
Images:
The Geffrard Map of the Island of Hayti drawn for James Redpath’s Guide to Hayti. Boston, Haytian bureau of emigration, 1861
Port au Prince In : Hazard, Samuel. Santo Domingo Past and Present, with a Glance at Hayti. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873.
The John Hay Library at Brown University has received the latest in a series of extraordinary gifts from Daniel G. Siegel ’57, proprietor of M & S Press and M & S Rare Books. Mr. Siegel, who in the past has made gifts to Brown including a first edition of The Great Gatsby inscribed by F. Scott Fitzgerald to T. S. Eliot, has given 130 historically significant texts and manuscripts to the John Hay, which houses the University Library’s collections of rare books and manuscripts, the University Archives, and special collections.
Within the collection donated by Mr. Siegel, the greatest strengths are in the history of science, including major works in astronomy, mathematics, medicine, chemistry and physics; American, British and European history and literature; and philosophical and religious thought. The works, many of which are rare and inscribed or annotated by their authors or distinguished previous owners, are of great scholarly and artifactual value. Director of Special Collections Samuel Streit says that the gift “adds depth to library strengths” in areas such as the history of science “while extending them in new directions.”
The Brown University Library and the John Carter Brown Library were among the 31 institutions partnering with the Library of Congress and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to launch the World Digital Library (WDL) in Paris yesterday. This highly anticipated event was reported on in the international press, including The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. The WDL is a web site that features unique cultural materials and national treasures from libraries and archives around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, films, sound recordings, prints, photographs, and other resources. The site – located at www.wdl.org – was conceived in 2005 by U.S. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington as a way to promote cross-cultural awareness by telling the stories and highlighting the achievements of all countries and cultures, including those that lack the resources to digitize and display important cultural resources. The WDL provides unrestricted public access, free of charge, to this material.
The launch took place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Harriette Hemmasi, the Joukowsky Family University Librarian at the Brown University Library, and Edward Widmer, Director and Librarian at the John Carter Brown Library, joined WDL partners in helping present the project to those attending the semi-annual meeting of UNESCO’s Executive Board. Ms. Hemmasi said it was a “great honor” and Mr. Widmer agreed it was a “terrific privilege” to be part of this global initiative. “The goals of the project are noble and enriching – to bring together primary documents representing the world’s cultures and make them openly available via the internet,” Ms. Hemmasi said. “It is very humbling to be part of this endeavor and to represent Brown.” Mr. Widmer noted that the WDL had received more than one million hits in its first day.
The John Hay Library is home to a collection of Hitler’s books, which was donated in 1979 by the late Matthew Perlman, a member of the Class of 1957. Perlman got the books from his late uncle, Albert Aronson, who served in the U.S. Army in World War II and was one of the first Americans to enter Berlin in the spring of 1945. Samuel Streit, director of special collections at the Hay, says the collection is treated just like any other in the library.
See: “Hitler’s books: Insights into an evil mind”, Providence Journal, March 8, 2009
http://www.projo.com/books/content/lb-hitler_books_03-08-09_JSDEE8T_v24.145dde0.html
For further information contact hay@brown.edu
Hear Holly Snyder, Ph.D., North American History Librarian, speak about Brown’s Lincoln Collection for a story about Abraham Lincoln that aired today on WRNI.
http://www.wrni.org/content/lincolns-rhode-island-connection
A selection of material from the collection is currently on exhibit at the John Hay Library. See: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/exhibits/
For further information contact Holly_Snyder@brown.edu
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 “Snowy Owl”. The library is open 9 to 5, Monday through Friday. The Library will be closed on Monday January 19th for Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday.
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
December 1, 2008 – April 1, 2009
The Rockefeller Library is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights from December 1, 2008 – April 1, 2009 with a special exhibit in the lobby. Spurred on by the atrocities committed during World War II, this document was ratified by the General Assembly on December 10, 1948 to designate universal, inalienable rights that every man, woman and child would enjoy. It became the “common standard of achievement” that many nations and international organizations used as they constructed laws and constitutions to protect people’s rights.