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EZProxy Move to New Server
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CIS will be switching the Off-campus Access Service proxy to another server late on Sunday night, June 11. The proxy will not be available for several hours, but should be up and running by Monday morning. If you experience any problems on Monday morning, please try again later in the day. If you continue to experience problems accessing eresources via the proxy server, please contact eresources@brown.edu. The VPN client is an alternate and, in many cases, a more reliable method of remote access. You must have a broadband internet connection and not be using the Lifespan or other VPN client in order to use this method. More information -
The Quintessential G.B.S
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Selections from the Sidney P. Albert — George Bernard Shaw Collection
The John Hay Library
Brown University
May 27- June 11, 2006
In 1991 the Brown University Library acquired a collection of George Bernard Shaw material formed by Sidney P. Albert, professor emeritus of philosophy at California State University – Los Angeles . The collection is rich in manuscript material, including autograph and typed letters, post cards, notes, inscriptions and signed photographs as well as costume designs and a fragment of music in Shaw’s hand. There are more than 2,000 books by and about Shaw and a strong collection of ephemera – pamphlets, “rough proof” rehearsal copies of plays, programs, press clippings, film stills, posters, publicity photographs, recordings, photographs of Shaw’s 1933 visit to Hollywood, and publications of Shaw societies in London, New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo. More than 200 periodicals containing pieces by or about Shaw round out the collection.
Brown University Library also holds the correspondence between Shaw and his American publisher, Dodd, Mead & Company. That purchase, including 15 letters, original contracts, sketches and photographs of Shaw, and more than 100 files covering contracts and reprint rights, provides a picture of Shaw as a businessman who composed his own contracts and championed the economic cause of writers.
The exhibit also includes a selection of posters from Shaw productions at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence. Trinity has recently donated its archives to Brown University Library.
This exhibit is based on the one presented by Jean Rainwater from September 25-October 6, 2000, which itself drew from Jennifer B. Lee’s, which was mounted from May 5-July 28, 1995. I wish to acknowledge the excellent work they did in bringing this material together, and thank them and the staff of the John Hay Library, who made it possible for me to create the current exhibit on the occasion of the International Bernard Shaw Conference, June 8-11, 2006, sponsored by Brown University and the International Shaw Society, celebrating the “Sesquicentennial Shaw.” Additional material may be viewed in the digital exhibit The Quintessential G. B. S.
For further information, please contact Stephen_L_Thompson@brown.edu -
Bernard Shaw on his 150th Birthday – Commencement Forum
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Saturday, May 27, 2006, 10:30 a.m.
Lownes Room, John Hay Library,
Prof. Emeritus, Don B. Wilmeth, Dept. of Theatre, Speech & Dance
A brief glance at the life, unique persona, politics, and writings of this prolific Irish writer and idea monger, examined in the context of his time and ours. Is Mr. Shaw still relevant? Or has he become an anachronism, no longer speaking to us?
The presentation will correspond to an exhibit at the John Hay Library drawn from the Albert-Shaw Collection, and will serve as an overture to a major international Shaw conference at Brown a week from the forum.