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...relationship with tinsel town doesn't end where the set begins. To coincide with the release of “Bright Star,” the new romantic film about the great 19th century English poet John Keats and his love interest Fanny Brawne, Harvard’s Houghton Library has launched a new exhibit. The display, titled “John Keats and Fanny Brawne,” showcases some of the few relics of a romance that fans have long been left to wonder about...
...Houghton already holds one of the largest collections of Keats’ correspondence, including 13 of his 39 surviving letters to Brawne. “It just seemed with the movie coming out, I thought it would be nice to do something topical,” said Houghton curator Leslie Morris...
...think there’s this assumption that, particularly with special collections, that the more you put online the less reason people have to come and use the collections,” says Thomas A. Horrocks, Associate Librarian of Houghton Library for Collections. “That hasn’t proven to be true as we’re slowly but surely starting to digitize part of our collections...
...office in the basement of Houghton Library is dimly lit, crowded with Abraham Lincoln busts, portraits, and books. One might wonder if they’ve stumbled into an overcrowded gift shop. Yet as this keeper of special collections pulls up Web page after Web page on Houghton’s Web site, he emphasizes that the images on the screen can actually help bring the people into the building...
...People will discover these things not by thinking I’ll go to Houghton, but these things are all Google-able. People doing a John Updike search come across the Houghton blog entry and then come to Houghton library and hopefully start reading the other entries. Updike’s getting a lot of hits,” Horrocks says, pulling up the Web page for Houghton’s Longfellow Exhibition...