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Announcement | John Hay Library unveils transformative vision for special collections at Brown

Six dynamic and interconnected areas of focus build on current collection strengths and forge a path for building distinctive collections that support expansive and imaginative inquiry with a commitment to community engagement, environmental sustainability, and social justice. Providence, R.I. [Brown University] After a year-long process of critical self-study and reflection led by Amanda Strauss, Associate Announcement | John Hay Library unveils transformative vision for special collections at Brown

Announcement | Library Services during COVID-19 Pandemic

Though the Brown University Library buildings remain closed, online services are available at rock@brown.edu, hay@brown.edu, and library.brown.edu. Read the latest on Brown’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. RESUMPTION OF LIMITED LIBRARY SERVICES As of June 29, the Library is providing limited in-person, contactless services. Expanded Access to Digital Content As a response to the global Announcement | Library Services during COVID-19 Pandemic

Exhibit | Dis/Assemble: Making Meaning from the Minassian Collection

Dis/Assemble Dis/Assemble is a collaborative effort by graduate students from across ten different humanities disciplines to construct narratives around a continuously moving archive: the Minassian Collection of Persian, Mughal, and Indian Paintings and Calligraphies at Brown University. This collection evokes questions of assemblage and disassemblage, from sifting the extraordinary from the ordinary to practices of Exhibit | Dis/Assemble: Making Meaning from the Minassian Collection

Event | #LibraryLove 2020

This Valentine’s Day – Friday, February 14 – let us know what you think is the greatest thing at the Library, enjoy cookies, write a love letter, explore poetry, and make a button from a special collections print. Available from 12 – 3 p.m. in these library locations: Rockefeller Library, Sorensen Family Reading Room John Hay Event | #LibraryLove 2020

Exhibit | Intercalary Event 2020

Works by Katie Bullock, Faculty, Glass, Rhode Island School of DesignJocelyne Prince, Faculty, Glass, Rhode Island School of Design Sean Salstrom, Graduate Study, Glass, Rhode Island School of Design Artists approach research differently than scientists. The freedom through which artists pursue research allows their inquiries to breed multivalent results, often seemingly unconnected results which can Exhibit | Intercalary Event 2020

Announcement | Hortense J. Spillers Papers Open for Research

The Pembroke Center’s Feminist Theory Archive and the John Hay Library are proud to announce that the Hortense J. Spillers papers are open for research. Spillers is an American literary critic, Black feminist scholar, and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in English at Vanderbilt University. Her research addresses literary criticism, race and gender; linguistics; the African diaspora; Black culture; and sexuality. She is Announcement | Hortense J. Spillers Papers Open for Research