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Brown Librarians help produce Association for Research Libraries publication
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Celebrating Research: A Guide to Rare and Special Collections from the Membership of the Association of Research Libraries was recently released to coincide with the organization’s 75th anniversary. The publication is co-edited by Samuel Streit, Brown University’s Director for Special Collections, who also contributed an overview of the University’s Special Collections. In addition to Streit’s extensive contributions, curator Peter Harrington wrote a profile of the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection and Ben Tyler, Digital Imaging Specialist, oversaw the design of the page. Housed at the John Hay Library, the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection is the foremost collection in the United States on the history and iconography of soldiers and soldiering. Streit shared responsibility for editing Celebrating Research with Phillip N. Cronenwett, Special Collections Librarian Emeritus, Dartmouth College Library, and Kevin Osborn, Research & Design Ltd. Specific collections of distinction are drawn from 148 member libraries. Among them are the Collection of Rare Maps of the Tokugawa Era from the University of British Columbia Library. The Water Resources Archive from the Colorado State Universities Library, The Emily Dickinson Collection from Harvard University’s Houghton Library, the Orson Welles Collection from Indiana University Bloomington’s Lilly Library, and the Cervantes Collection from Texas A& M University’s Cushing Memorial Library. Each profile tells the story of the collection and provides fascinating insight into how each was acquired, maintained, and developed. -
Friedman goes Hollywood !
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On Monday 9/17, the Library and the Office of Student Life introduced a collection of current DVDs for students at the Friedman Study Center. The collection is comprised of recently released DVDs most popular on American college campuses. Starting with about 100 titles, the collection will grow at the rate of 20 DVDs per month and will eventually contain about 260 rotating titles. Friedman DVDs can be browsed online and movies listed as ‘available’ may be requested at the Friedman Service Desk.
The collection is available only to Brown students.
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Illustrating the Good Life: The Pissarros’ Eragny Press, 1894-1914
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A book is, more than most things, a compendium of human values. Some of these appeal to the intellect, some to the emotions, some to the eye, and some even to the sense of touch. One cannot pick up a beautiful book without inhaling this elixir of creative effort, which is at the same time so stimulating and so gratifying to the senses.— Bruce Rogers (1870 – 1957), from a Rowfant Club keepsake, 1954
At their Eragny Press, Lucien and Esther Pissarro choreographed a dance between image and text that presaged Bruce Rogers’s 1954 description of a beautiful book. Eragny books honor texts that are touchstones of the Good Life as the Pissarros understood it; a life lived with respect for one’s self, for others, and for the natural environment. Their books conjure landscapes, evoke love songs and poetry, celebrate the joys of daily life, and re-tell tales from England, France, Belgium, China and the Ancient Near East. Here, for the first time, the authors and subjects of Eragny Press books are analyzed to shed light on the Pissarros’ goals as artists. Esther Bensusan (1870 – 1951) and Lucien Pissarro (1863 – 1944) crossed national boundaries to marry. She was English; he was French. Their marriage and their books merged English Arts and Crafts Movement and French Neo-Impressionist forms and ideals.
The exhibition curated by Alice H. R . H . Beckwith at Brown University’s John Hay Library is enriched by letters from Lucien Pissarro and the fine press books assembled by nineteenth and early twentieth century graduates of Brown, Philip Darrel Sherman and John M. Crawford Jr. The exhibit will run from September 4th – October 26th.