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Kate Fox, Associate Director of Library Services & Archives
401-842-6689
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Valerie Simpson, Archivist
401-842-6692
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Use these databases to start your research and gather background information on topics of interest.
Attention, day students! Off-campus access usernames and passwords to library databases can be found here (must be logged into your SG Google account to view).
Access all of the library's research databases through the A-Z Databases list:
Attention, day students! Off-campus access usernames and passwords to library databases can be found here (must be logged into your SG Google account to view).
To access free ebooks, audiobooks, and streaming music and movies through eZone:
Magazines in the Library: Come in and browse the collection today! All back issues are available for check out. Digital magazines are available through Flipster |
Newspapers in the Library: The library provides campus-wide digital access to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, as well as database access to additional newspapers listed below. |
When Emily Diman retired in 1928, the faculty gave her a beautiful silver tea tray, which she bequeathed to her goddaughter, Elizabeth Wheeler, who then donated it back to SG in 1975. It lives in the archives and it's inscribed in lovely engraved lettering at the center:
Dux femina facti
Emily Diman
St. George's School 1896-1928
From her friends of the Faculty
A few years ago, I asked for a translation of the Latin from Dr. Patricia Moss who was the department head at the time. She explained that "Dux femina facti" is super famous among Latinists and that it describes Dido when she fled her native Phoenicia, gathered a group of tyrant-haters to go with her, made her way to North Africa, and founded Carthage. "A woman is the leader of the deed" is the literal translation. Dux stresses her leadership, transformation, resilience, and courage; facti stresses her concrete accomplishment. A little later, Dido was compared to the virgin goddess Diana leading a large chorus of mountain nymphs along a mountain ridge; Diana is described as inspiring, happy, a leader, an independent and free spirit, and a towering figure--so this is Dido at the pinnacle of her life. Emily, by the way, was fondly remembered for (among many other things) reading stories out loud to the younger students in the evenings, sharing with them her love of stories and literature.
-Mrs. Simpson, St. George's School archivist
The Red and White headline announcing the retirement gift
The tea tray inscription.
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