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Library PressDisplay: 1700+ Newspapers, 92 Countries, 48 Languages
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The Library now subscribes to Library PressDisplay, which provides same-day, online, full-color, full-page-image access to about 1700 newspapers from 92 countries in 48 languages. This not only vastly increases the number of current newspapers we have “instant” daily access to, but also provides a two-month archive, full-text searching of current and archived content (going back 60 days), subject classification of stories, translation capabilities, RSS news feeds, a multilingual interface, and remote, 24/7 availability. -
Early American and British Popular Amusements, Exhibit and Lecture
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EARLY AMERICAN AND BRITISH POPULAR AMUSEMENTS
An exhibit from the personal collection of Professor Emeritus Don B. Wilmeth, supplemented by items from Brown’s Special CollectionsJohn Hay Library
10 Prospect Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02912Open to the Public
September 13 – October 28, 2010.
Monday – Friday, 10:00am – 6:00pmThis exhibit focuses on some of the pioneer entertainment forms and entrepreneurs who dominated the amusement business in England and the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries It includes pleasure gardens and annual fairs; equestrian demonstrations and dramas featuring animals; the minstrel show and early vaudeville. There are child prodigies, pantomimes and the early popular museum. Formats include broadsides, playbills and satirical prints, along with photographs, pamphlets, and posters.
The exhibit, which will be in place through September and October of 2010, will be enhanced by the seventh annual Wilmeth Lecture on American theatre and performance. This special event will be held on Oct. 3 (Sunday) at 3 PM in the John Hay Library. The distinguished speaker is Laurence Senelick, Fletcher Professor of Drama and Oratory at Tufts University and an internationally-known authority on popular entertainments. His topic is “Custard’s First Stand: The Origins of American Slapstick Comedy.” A viewing of the exhibit will follow the lecture.
Guest curator: Don B. Wilmeth, Asa Messer Professor Emeritus and Emeritus Professor of Theatre and of English, Brown U. (retired in 2003). Download Professor Wilmeth’s complete catalog of the exhibit.
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Celebrating National Recovery Month
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September is National Recovery Month, a perfect time to highlight the Hay Library’s extensive holdings on alcoholism and its treatment. The collections, which were compiled over the course of several decades by Dr. David Lewis, document the founding of AA by Dr. Bob and Bill W., the treatment of alcoholism as a disease, and the role of women in the recovery movement — most notably Marty Mann of the National Council of Alcohol and Drug Dependency, the first woman to publicly confess to being an alcoholic. A web guide to doing research in our holdings is available.