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Extended Library Hours: Reading & Exam Period
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The Friedman Study Center is open continuously (24/7) until 5 pm on Friday December 21. From Thursday 12/6 until the end of exams, the Rockefeller Library is open 7:30 am – 2 am, Monday – Saturday and 10 am – 2 am Sunday. The John Hay Library, in addition to their regular hours (including 1 to 5 pm Sunday hours) will be open on Saturday 12/8 and 12/15, noon to 5 pm. All other campus libraries will maintain usual hours. Printed schedule available here.
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Audubon’s “Brown Pelican” on Display
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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 Brown Pelican. The library is open 9 to 6, Monday through Friday and 1 to 5PM on Sundays.
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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“From A.A. to Zouave,” an exhibition at the Annmary Brown Memorial
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A larger-than-life image of Charles Wilson Peale, founder of one of America’s first museums, welcomes visitors to an exhibition of over 150 items from Brown University’s holdings featured in “From A.A. to Zouave: Collections at Brown.” Students of the American Civilization Department’s “Methods in Public Humanities” course curated the exhibition, which is sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center Public Humanities Program and the Brown University Library. The exhibition is on view at the Annmary Brown Memorial from Tuesday, Dec. 11 through Friday, May 30, 2008 and is free and open to the public.
The objects on display range from the coffee pot that fueled the late night meetings of Bill W. and Dr. Bob as they pioneered Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), the world’s first 12-step recovery program, to a hand-knit cap from a Civil War Zouave regiment. (The latter took its name and sartorial inspiration from the elite French North African colonial units of the 1830s.) Among the more unexpected items in the exhibition are toy soldiers, a mosaic fragment from ancient Pompeii, books from Hitler’s personal library with his notations in the margins, a script from the television show “Mork and Mindy,” and recordings of Ghanaian music.
Some collections highlight the transformative power of ideas; others provide a sense of the impassioned collectors and dedicated scholars who assembled them. All speak to the varied richness of human history and the depth of the University’s collections, gathered from the Brown University Library, the Haffenreffer Museum, the Bell Gallery, and elsewhere.… “From A.A. to Zouave,” an exhibition at the Annmary Brown Memorial