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Audubon’s “Snowy Owl” 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 “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.
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Library Hours – Winter Break
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All campus libraries with the exception of the Rockefeller, will be closed effective Sunday, December 21 and will reopen on Monday, January 5. The Rockefeller Library will be open Monday, December 22 and Tuesday, December 23 10:00am-5:00pm and Monday, December 29 through Wednesday, December 31 from 10:00am-5:00pm. Intersession hours begin on January 5.
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The 60th anniversary of the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
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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.