The seventh annual Professor John Howard Birss, Jr. Memorial Library Exhibition will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. The University Library display cases will feature original materials and facsimiles from the special library collections of Brown University as well as Columbia University where Kerouac was an undergraduate. Additional display items will highlight Kerouac's friends and colleagues from the Beat Generation of writers, particularly Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs. The exhibit will be open to the public from February 1 through March 15 during regular Library hours. For further information, contact Christine Fagan of the RWU Library at 254-3029 or cfagan@rwu.edu.

The 7th Annual Professor John Howard Birss, Jr. Memorial Lecture