Docent Program & Art of the Book

DOCENT PROGRAM
Pequot Library is home to more than 30,000 rare books and materials in our Special Collections. Through tailored, educational, inter-disciplinary field trips, we bring treasures of the past to the students of our community. Interested in bringing literature, art, and the humanities to life for local students? Become a Pequot Library Docent!

Docents are volunteers who are trained to lead students in grades K-12 through tours of Pequot Library's history and architecture and/or materials on display from our Special Collections. Docents engage students through lively, interactive discussion, and a hands-on approach to learning while conveying the warmth that Pequot Library is known for.  

Pequot Library's Docent Program offers the opportunity to experience first-hand the items from our Special Collections while engaging young minds with treasures they won't find anyplace else. Click on the links below for more information plus application form.

Prospective Docent Information Session

DOCENT POSITION DESCRIPTION

DOCENT APPLICATION FORM

ART OF THE BOOK
From Saint Gregory’s letters of the 12th century, the oldest book in the Library, to the Kelmscott Press of the late 19th century, this collection chronicles the history of printing throughout the centuries. Included in the collection are illuminated manuscripts, books printed by the private presses, for example, Kelmscott, Doves, and Golden Cockerell, and books featuring wood engravings by Edward Burne-Jones, Eric Gill, Clare Leighton, and Barry Moser. For information about access and guidelines, please click here.

Never Saying A Word by Barry Moser Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  by Mark Twain Published in West Hatfield, Mass by the Pennyroyal Press, 1985	Miss Sophia's Testament
Country Matters by Clare Leighton  Published by the Macmillan Company, 1937	Woman with Flowers by Clare Leighton  Published by the Macmillan Company, 1937
The Ideal Book Published in London  by the Doves Press, 1900	The Knyghtes Tale Engraved by Edward Burne-Jones From The Kelmscott Chaucer Published by The Kelmscott Press, 1896
St. Gregory’s Letters St. Gregory’s Letters was written in the  12th century in Latin and French.