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href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/concentrationfieldguide\/the-john-hay-library\/\" title=\"\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">About the John Hay Library<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-navigation-item  menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/concentrationfieldguide\/about\/\" title=\"\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">About Fields of Hay<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/nav>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Welcome to Fields of Hay! Explore the tabs and sections to learn more about the opportunities for undergraduate engagement at the John Hay Library.<\/p>\n<p>Fields of Hay is the undergraduate student field guide to the John Hay Library, created and maintained by a student employee of the Library. The guide highlights both standing collections and individual materials across fields of study housed at the Hay to <strong>encourage deeper student engagement<\/strong> with Library holdings <strong>regardless of concentration<\/strong>. The guide also promotes ongoing events and student-specific programming at the Hay to demonstrate how libraries and special collections can be places of <strong>hands-on, practical, and fun learning and pleasure<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have suggestions of how to improve Fields of Hay for student use, please fill out this <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdc2l26FVziYVl3PvPBnhU30gRkLP2gpdYL49014GmKabAdKw\/viewform?usp=sf_link\">form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6>About the Author<\/h6>\n<p>Shira Buchsbaum &#8217;19 studied Anthropology and English Non-Fiction Writing and was the primary creator of Fields of Hay, under the advisorship of Heather Cole. She wrote her senior thesis about curatorial decision-making for the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays as reflective of changing conceptions of American literature. 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