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===John Hay Library===
{{Main|John Hay Library}}
[[File:John Hay Library (Brown).jpg|thumb|The [[John Hay Library]] is home to rare books, special collections, and the university archives.]]The John Hay Library is the second oldest library on campus.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ok |first=Katherine |date=2019-03-21 |title=Hay Library's Special Collections offer more than a human skin-bound book |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2019/03/21/hay-librarys-special-collections-offer-human-skin-bound-book/ |access-date=2021-03-07 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=September 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926204901/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2019/03/21/hay-librarys-special-collections-offer-human-skin-bound-book/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Opened in 1910, the library is named for [[John Hay]] (class of 1858), private secretary to [[Abraham Lincoln]] and Secretary of State under [[William McKinley]] and [[Theodore Roosevelt]]. The construction of the building was funded in large part by Hay's friend, [[Andrew Carnegie]], who contributed half of the $300,000 cost of construction.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=J0080 |title=From Martha Mitchell's ''Encyclopedia Brunoniana'': John Hay Library |publisher=Brown.edu |access-date=April 1, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217214933/http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=J0080 |archive-date=February 17, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The John Hay Library serves as the repository of the university's archives, rare books and manuscripts, and special collections. Noteworthy among the latter are the [[Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/collections/askb/ |title=The Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection :: Brown University Library |publisher=Dl.lib.brown.edu |access-date=February 22, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100219174610/http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/collections/askb/ |archive-date=February 19, 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref> (described as "the foremost American collection of material devoted to the history and iconography of soldiers and soldiering"),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection – Brown University Library |url=https://library.brown.edu/collatoz/info.php?id=27 |access-date=2021-03-07 |website=library.brown.edu |archive-date=October 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211012135616/https://library.brown.edu/collatoz/info.php?id=27 |url-status=live}}</ref> the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays (described as "the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind in any research library"), the Lownes Collection of the History of Science (described as "one of the three most important private collections of books of science in America"), and the papers of [[H. P. Lovecraft]]. The Hay Library is home to one of the broadest collections of [[Incunable|incunabula]] in the Americas, one of Brown's two [[First Folio|Shakespeare First Folios]], the manuscript of [[George Orwell]]'s ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]],'' and three books [[Anthropodermic bibliopegy|bound in human skin]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Johnson |first=M.L. |date=January 7, 2006 |agency=Associated Press |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=20060111&id=K-lYAAAAIBAJ&pg=5031,2157846 |title=Some of nation's best libraries have books bound in human skin |access-date=June 6, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151231204804/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=20060111&id=K-lYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rVYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5031,2157846 |archive-date=December 31, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>