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  • Collection: Jones Library Collection

Charles Derby.jpg
Local author Charles Derby poses with copies of his books, Inspired by Dreams: Selections from the Charles Derby Collection and Eye of the Angel: Selections from the Derby Collection.

Cornelia Cornelissen.jpg
Local author Cornelia Cornelissen poses with copies of her books, Soft Rain: a story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears and Music in the Wood.

Lawrence Douglas.jpg
Lawrence Douglas, James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College, holding his book, Will He Go? Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown. He is the author of the novels The Vices and The Catastrophist in…

Dean Cycon.jpg
Local author and owner of Dean's Beans Organic Coffee Company Dean Cycon poses with a copy of his book Javatrekker.

Catherine Newman and Nicole Blum.jpg
Local authors Catherine Newman (right) and Nicole Blum (left) pose at Carr's Ciderhouse gift shop. Newman and Blum co-wrote Stitch Camp and are also holding books they authored individually.

Jane McPhetres Johnson.jpg
Local author Jane McPhetres Johnson poses with a copy of her poetry book, Maven Reaches Mars: Home Poems and Space Probes in Four Fascicles.

a humanized library by walter dyer.pdf
An article on the Jones Library published shortly after its construction in a 1931 edition of House Beautiful.

like no other library is the jones memorial at amherst.pdf
An article on the Jones Library from the Boston Sunday Globe published on December 16, 1928, shortly after the library opened its new building.

jones_library_front_entranceway_1986.jpg
This photograph shows the front entranceway of the Jones Library. The back of the library (prior to the 1993 renovation) is visible through the archway.

jones_library_inventory_january_1977.jpg
Daily tally board, in the periodical lounge, during the January 1977 inventory of the Jones Library

jones_library_amherst_house_story_hour.jpg
While the Jones Library was housed at the Amherst House these children enjoyed story hour.

jones_library_card_catalog_sale.jpg
In 2002 the Jones Library completely transferred from the card catalog to a digital system. Cards from the card catalog were signed by authors and illustrators and then sold to raise money for the library. Here patrons are picking out what cards to…

jones_library_burnett_gallery.jpg
The Burnett Gallery in the 1928 Jones Library before the renovation in the early 1990s.

jones_library_front_hallway.jpg
This is the front hallway of the Jones Library before the renovation in the early 1990s.
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