Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Brown Bag on the History and Collections of the State Library


Join us for a Brown Bag Lunch
on Thursday, April 17th,  2014
State Library of Massachusetts
Room 442, State House
12 until 1:30 PM

Bring your lunch and join us to hear the State Library’s Head of Special Collections, Beth Carroll-Horrocks, talk about the Library’s history and its collections. She will bring examples of many of the formats, including maps, rare books, manuscripts, photographs, artifacts, and of course, state government publications.

To register, please visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SYKJLSG. You may also call the Reference Department at 617-727-2590 or send an email to Reference.Department@state.ma.us to let us know you will attend.

Future Brown Bags planned for 2014:
  • May 22nd, 2014 - Nancy Lusignan Schultz, author of Fire and Roses: the Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834
  • June 19th, 2014 - Stephen Puleo, author of The Caning: The Assault that Drove America to the Civil War