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Located at 10 Prospect Street, “the Rock” houses collections for the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts. It is also home to the Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University Digital Publications, East Asian Collection, Racial Justice Resource Center, and Vincent J. Wernig Graduate Student Study Room.
Access is limited to current Brown ID holders and consortial partners. For more information, please see the user categories below which list the types of users who are accorded access.
Located at 20 Prospect Street, “the Hay” promotes research, teaching, and public engagement with Brown’s world-renowned collections of rare books, manuscripts, archives, and ephemera. The Harriette Hemmasi Exhibition Gallery mounts exhibits of the Hay’s holdings around questions of topical interest.
Appointments are required for use of special collections in the Gildor Family Special Collections Reading Room. Please review the John Hay Library’s Visiting information before your visit.
A Carnegie Library, the John Hay Library is open to the public during regular hours.
Located at 201 Thayer Street, “the SciLi” holds materials that support study and research in the fields of medicine, psychology, neuroscience, environmental science, biology, chemistry, geology, physics, engineering, computer science, and pure and applied mathematics.
The Friedman Study Center and the Library’s Geospatial and Social Sciences Data Center (GeoData@SciLi) along with print works in STEM are in the SciLi. Brown’s Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning is also located in the SciLi.
Access is limited to current Brown ID holders and consortial partners. For more information, please see the user categories below which list the types of users who are accorded access.
Located at 1 Young Orchard Avenue, Orwig supports the study, creation, and performance of music with extensive collections of scholarly literature, recorded works in a wide variety of audio and video formats, music scores, and the Walter Neiman ‘46 Archive of Sound Recordings.
The collection supports the curriculum of the Music Department and provides material for general use by the Brown community and individuals conducting research in the fields of music or theatre arts and performance studies.
Located in The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University at 222 Richmond Street, Champlin is an information resource center and study area. It provides online access to the Library’s extensive collection of electronic journals, textbooks, and databases, and contains no on-site physical collections.
Champlin is open only to Alpert Medical School students.
Located at 21 Brown Street, the Annmary Brown Memorial displays the art collection acquired by General Rush C. Hawkins and his wife Annmary (née Brown) during their lifetime including exhibits of European and American paintings from the 17th through the 20th centuries, the Cyril and Harriet Mazansky British Sword Collection, as well as personal mementos of Gen. Hawkins, and the Brown family.
Currently closed for renovation.
Library Collection Annex
Located four miles from campus, the Annex is a purpose-built facility for high-density storage, supporting regular retrieval and delivery of items to campus. Closed to patrons.