{"id":16848,"date":"2025-11-21T21:41:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/?p=16848"},"modified":"2026-09-10T16:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:15:23","slug":"hay-broadsides-closed-20251201-20260331","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/hay-broadsides-closed-20251201-20260331\/","title":{"rendered":"John Hay Library &#8211; Broadside Collections Closed\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Update 9\/10\/2026:<\/strong> Due to ongoing renovations, the broadside collection closures will continue until <strong>October 30, 2026.<\/strong> See below for details about affected collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"637\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/11\/broadside-dog-1024x637.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/11\/broadside-dog-1024x637.png 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/11\/broadside-dog-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Frame, Mary Juanita., &#8220;Greetings&#8221; (1950).&nbsp;<em>Harris Broadsides.<\/em>&nbsp;Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/repository.library.brown.edu\/studio\/item\/bdr:274080\/\">https:\/\/repository.library.brown.edu\/studio\/item\/bdr:274080\/<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most of the broadside collections in the John Hay Library (including the Harris Broadsides, Rider Broadsides, Carriers\u2019 Addresses, and general collection broadsides) will be closed to researchers <strong>December 1, 2025, to September 8, 2026<\/strong>. <em>&nbsp;<\/em>The closure does not impact access to the <a href=\"https:\/\/repository.library.brown.edu\/studio\/collections\/id_575\/\">Lincoln Broadsides<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of the broadsides have been digitized and are available in the <a href=\"https:\/\/repository.library.brown.edu\/studio\/\">Brown Digital Repository<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/repository.library.brown.edu\/studio\/collections\/bdr:224398\/\">Harris Broadsides<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/repository.library.brown.edu\/studio\/collections\/bdr:dcfcd5wv\/\">Rider Broadsides<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/repository.library.brown.edu\/studio\/collections\/bdr:16421\/\">Carriers\u2019 Addresses<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Questions?&nbsp;Please <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/hay\/#request_form\">Ask Us<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update 9\/10\/2026: Due to ongoing renovations, the broadside collection closures will continue until October 30, 2026. See below for details about affected collections. Most of the broadside collections in the John Hay Library (including the Harris Broadsides, Rider Broadsides, Carriers\u2019 Addresses, and general collection broadsides) will be closed to researchers December 1, 2025, to September <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/hay-broadsides-closed-20251201-20260331\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  John Hay Library &#8211; Broadside Collections Closed\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,32,8,155,18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements-special-collections","category-collections","category-hay","category-home-page","category-service-changes-interruptions","category-special-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16848"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17162,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16848\/revisions\/17162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}