What is the difference between the John Hay Library and the John Carter Brown Library?
Answer
The John Hay Library, part of the Brown University Library system, houses special collections spanning many subjects and time periods, with particularly strong collections in American literature and history, popular culture, military history and iconography, history of science and the art and history of the book.
The John Carter Brown Library is an independently administered and funded center, which holds primary historical sources pertaining to the Americas, both North and South, before about 1825.