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Lincoln Family Home Exhibit Features Brown Special Collections

Brunonians whose travels take them to southern Vermont in the next two years will have the chance to view artifacts from the John Hay Library’s McLellan Lincoln Collection at Hildene, the Lincoln Family Home in Manchester, VT. The artifacts will be part of an exhibit opening on Saturday, September 5, 2009 entitled “The American Ideal: Lincoln Family Home Exhibit Features Brown Special Collections

“Katrina, Katrina” at the Brown University Library

Five Brown University Library exhibits, including a virtual exhibit of hurricane damage to Gulf Coast libraries, will commemorate the 4th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina through photographs, poetry, music, historical documents, and video footage. Part of the University-wide “Katrina, Katrina” project’s extensive slate of programming, all Library exhibits are free, public, and open through the end “Katrina, Katrina” at the Brown University Library

Language Resource Center collections moved to Library

Effective August 17th, the University Library has assumed responsibility for housing and circulating the print and video collections of the Language Resource Center (LRC). The video collections have been moved to the Sciences Library; books and bound journals have been transferred to Rockefeller Library. Josiah records for these materials have been updated to reflect their Language Resource Center collections moved to Library

Audubon’s “Hutchinson’s Barnacle Goose” on display in the John Hay Library

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 “Hutchinson’s Barnacle Goose”, aka the Canada Goose. This elephant folio edition of The Birds of America, Audubon’s “Hutchinson’s Barnacle Goose” on display in the John Hay Library