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 … Audubon’s “Brown Pelican” on Display
The Library’s Latin American Travelogues project has been featured by the Internet Scout Project’s Scout Report: “The John Hay Library at Brown University has an impressive array of collections related to Latin America and the Caribbean. These collections include the Schirmer Collection on Anti-Imperialism and the Paul R. Dupee Mexican History Collection. Recently, Professor James … Latin American Travelogues Project Featured by Scout Report
By Matthew Lawrence Posted: 11/12/07 If you ask Brown students where they find great music, most will probably direct you to the iTunes online store or LimeWire. Few students realize, however, how expansive and accessible the Orwig Music Library is. Located at 1 Young Orchard Ave., the library opened in 1988 and contains approximately 100,000 … Brown Daily Herald: Orwig boasts rich musical collection
In his monumental work on the royal library of the Aragonese Kings of Naples, Tammaro de Marinis describes three manuscripts copied in the 1470’s by the Italian scribe, Jacobus Laurentianus. Jacobus copied least one of these manuscripts from an early printed edition of the same works. Brown University Library has a fourth manuscript by Jacobus … Works by Jacobus Laurentianus on display at John Hay
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 Prairie Starling. The library is open 9 to 6, Monday through Friday and 1 to 5PM … Audubon’s “Prairie Starling” on display
A recently released article “Brown University to make historical panorama available online” from the Associated Press spotlights the work being done by the Brown University Library to digitize a 273 foot example of panoramic art. The Garibaldi Panorama will be available to virtual visitors this November through the Library’s Center for Digital Initiatives. For a … Associated Press covers Brown’s digitization of the Garibaldi Panorama
The latest issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education features an article documenting the hard work that Brown University curators and team members in the Center for Digital Initiatives are doing to make the Garibaldi Panorama digitally available to students and scholars throughout the world. The Library is collaborating with the Department of Italian Studies … Chronicle of Higher Education spotlights Garibaldi digitization
The Brown University Archives has put Student handbooks from 1935-1936 and 1959, and a small selection of photographs of students returning to campus to begin the school year, various freshmen activities, and the homecoming queen from 1955 on display at the John Hay Library through the end of September. The Hay is open 9-6, Monday … “Back to School” at the John Hay Library
A small selection of clay tablets from the John Hay Library is on exhibit now through the end of August. Among the items are cuneiform tablets and cones from ancient Mesopotamia. The Hay is open 9-5, Monday through Friday. It will be closed on Monday August 13, 2007. For further information contact hay@brown.edu
DARD HUNTER–PIONEER PAPER MAKER A small exhibit on Dard Hunter, credited with re-introducing the art and craft of hand paper making in the U.S. is on exhibit in the John Hay lobby throughout the month of July. Dard Hunter, who wrote extensively on hand paper making around the globe, especially the Far East, has been … Dard Hunter — Pioneer Paper Maker, John Hay Library Lobby Exhibit for July
