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Audubon’s “Cat Bird” 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 Cat Bird. The library is open 9 to 5, Monday through Friday.
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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Brown Alumni Magazine: Pearl Harbor and Band Practice
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Putting 117 years of the Brown Daily Herald online.
“It’s U.S. history through the eyes of Brown students. The day after Pearl Harbor there’s band practice,” said former Brown Daily Herald editor-in-chief Mary Catherine Lader ’08, referring to a December 1941 issue of the paper.
With former Herald senior editor Anne Wootton, who graduates next winter, and Patrick Yott, who directs the University Library’s digitization drive, Lader gave a forum on a $10,000 pilot project to digitize and put online a searchable archive of 117 years of the paper. (Herald alumna Kristie Miller ’66 funded the project.) For the pilot (http://dl.lib.brown.edu/dbdh), the group chose sample pages from key time periods, including the early years of the paper, both World Wars, and the late 1960s. To digitize the Herald’s entire 117-year history will cost about $300,000, Lader said.
Wootton read from a few sample pages. In the early twentieth century, all incoming students were measured and weighed, and the Herald reported their vital statistics. “The men were an average of five-foot-nine, which seems a little short to me,” she observed. “During World War I, varsity athletics were suspended,” she continued, reading from the October 1, 1918, issue, which reported that 600 Brown men would be inducted as soldiers and sailors that day.
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“Adventures in Boxmaking,” John Hay Library Exhibit
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As Conservation Technician at the John Hay Library, Erica H. Saladino has dealt with some unusual boxmaking challenges. She has designed and created housing for a wide variety of items ranging from miniature books to panoramic paintings, from 16th century monastic breviaries to contemporary artists’ books.How an object is stored on a shelf has a direct impact on its condition. Ms. Saladino evaluates the individual preservation needs of each item as it comes into the lab and devises creative solutions for their long-term storage. This exhibit provides a brief look into the kinds of unique items collected by the John Hay Library and how the challenges of preserving them have been met.
This exhibit will be on display in the John Hay Library until August 29th. A reception will be held on Wednesday, August 13th in the lobby of the Hay at 10 AM.