There are over one million photographs and negatives in the library’s collections. Tom Wells, the curator of photography in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, has chosen some of the finest examples to illustrate the history of photography. The new exhibition is titled From Daguerreotype to Digital and is located on level 1 of the [...] More »
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A House of Learning Lecture
From 1950 this film stars Burt Lancaster and Virginia Mayo.
A 2008 Oscar nominee for Best Documentary Feature, and winner of the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary 2008 at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary takes you inside Hurricane Katrina and the human spirit. http://www.troublethewaterfilm.com/
Exhibits
The L. Tom Perry Special Collections Robert Burns Collection contains a wide variety of printed material from other significant Burns anniversaries, including the centenary of Burns' death in 1896 and the bicentenary of his birth in 1959. Programs from special events, souvenir pamphlets, and popular literature about Scotland's Bard are interesting cultural artifacts which provide evidence of Burns' popularity and the ways in which his life and works were interpreted over the past centuries.
At this time, Special Collections is striving to collect not only scholarly works published to coincide with the Burns 250th anniversary, but ephemeral productions as well. We have also launched an exhibit of items from the Burns Collection, entitled "Robert Burns and the Poetic Image," which is on display on the main floor (level 3) of the Harold B. Lee.
Music Area
The Harold B. Lee Library Music Area is located at the south end of the 2nd floor.
