If monuments are physical manifestations of our most powerful institutions and enshrine a collective “public memory,” then the public has a right to play a central role in creating that memory.
With new special collections policy, John Hay Library aims to diversify the historical canon
The John Hay Library’s new collection policy is intended to support new trends in scholarship on campus and to diversify the personal and community stories told in Brown’s archives and special collections.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Whose stories are worth preserving?
That’s a question curators at Brown University’s John Hay Library have pondered since 1912, when they first began building a special collections archive a repository of documents, art and artifacts that capture moments and lives throughout human history.
In recent years, staff at the Hay Library today the gateway for special collections and archives at Brown began to ponder that question anew, as they wondered what important stories the University collections might be leaving out.