{"id":2410,"date":"2011-12-19T14:03:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T19:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=2410"},"modified":"2011-12-19T14:03:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T19:03:57","slug":"brown-university-library-receives-mellon-foundations-2011-hidden-collections-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/brown-university-library-receives-mellon-foundations-2011-hidden-collections-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown University Library Receives Mellon Foundation’s 2011 Hidden Collections Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Hall-Hoag Collection consists of hundreds of thousands of items documenting dissenting and extremist movements (left- and right-wing) in the United States, primarily between 1950 and 2000, on controversial subjects confronted by American society.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] –<\/strong> The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) announced that Brown University Library is a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s 2011 Hidden Collections<\/em><\/strong> award for “The Gordon Hall and Grace Hoag Collection of Dissenting and Extremist Printed Propaganda, Part II.” This three year project, headed by Jennifer Betts, University Archivist and Andrew Ashton, Director of Digital Technologies, will complete the processing of materials Gordon Hall began compiling when he returned from World War II and encountered U.S. domestic hate groups at both ends of the political spectrum.<\/p>\n

Along with a group of volunteers, including Grace Hoag, Hall infiltrated and investigated radical and dissenting groups, collecting their printed propaganda as part of his efforts to preserve these irreplaceable materials for posterity. This project will organize and make available over 700,000 items that reflect a continuum of views on the Cold War, civil and women’s rights, and the relationship of religion and state.<\/p>\n

Created in 2008 and supported by ongoing funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives<\/a><\/strong> awards program supports the identification and cataloging of special collections and archives of high scholarly value that are difficult or impossible to locate. Award recipients create web-accessible records according to standards that enable the federation of their local cataloging entries into larger groups of related records, enabling the broadest possible exposure to the scholarly community.<\/p>\n

The Brown University Library<\/strong> is home to more than 6.8 million print items, plus a multitude of electronic resources and expanding digital archives serving the teaching, research, and learning needs of Brown students and faculty, as well as scholars from around the country and the world.<\/p>\n

Contact:<\/b> Jennifer Braga<\/a> |\u00a0 401-863-6913<\/p>\n

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) announced that Brown University Library is a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s 2011 Hidden Collections award for “The Gordon Hall and Grace Hoag Collection of Dissenting and Extremist Printed Propaganda, Part II.” This three year project, headed by Jennifer Betts, University Archivist … Brown University Library Receives Mellon Foundation’s 2011 Hidden Collections Award<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-resources","category-hay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410","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\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}