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Event | A President Lincoln Hackathon with Parlor Monuments to the...
In honor of the 155th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s first inauguration, join us in the Sidney E. Frank Digital Studio for a 3D hackathon at noon on March 4, 2016. We’ll use a 3D scanner, 3D...
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Event | Annual Yoken Lecture: Timothy Mooney’s Molière Than Though
Timothy Mooney as Tartuffe Actor and author Timothy Mooney will deliver the Annual Mel and Cindy Yoken Cultural Series Lecture on Monday, April 11 at 4 p.m. in the Lownes Room at the John Hay Library....
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Event | Panel: Experiments with Digital Education at Brown
On Wednesday, February 24, 2016 from 4 – 5:30 p.m. in List Art Auditorium (120), Maud Mandel, Dean of the College and Professor of History and Judaic Studies, will moderate a panel of four Brown...
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Exhibit | Thousands of Little Colored Windows : Brown University’s Stamp...
Katanga, 1961 George S. Champlin Memorial Collection Thousands of Little Colored Windows : Brown University’s Stamp Collections is now on exhibit at the John Hay Library. This exhibition is curated by...
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Event | New Directions in Scholarly Publishing and the Challenges of Evaluation
On Monday, March 21, 2016 at 5:30 p.m. in Pembroke Hall, three academic publishing professionals will participate in a panel discussion entitled, “New Directions in Scholarly Publishing and the...
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Goodnight Lights at the Sciences Library
The Brown University Sciences Library You might not expect a university library to be saying goodnight at 8:30 p.m., with many students studying into the wee hours. But for a few weeks now, the...
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Carberry Day | Leap Year
The Brown University Library celebrates Josiah S. Carberry Day every February 29, occurring only in a leap year. In celebration, there will be fresh fruit and cookies available in the lobby at the...
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Event | Roger Schonfeld Talk on Libraries and Scholarly Practices
On Tuesday, March 8 from 12 – 1:30 p.m. in the DSL, Roger Schonfeld, director of Ithaka S+R’s Libraries and Scholarly Communication Program, will give a talk about his work with libraries and scholarly...
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Event | The Story of Nova Persei 1901
A “new star” appeared in the constellation Perseus in 1901 and was observed by Professor Winslow Upton at Brown’s Ladd Observatory. Eleven year-old H.P. Lovecraft also saw the cosmic sight, which...
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Event | Tom Elliott on “The Pleiades Gazetteer Data Model: Going Off-Road in...
On Friday, March 25, 2016 at noon in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Tom Elliott, Associate Director for Digital Programs and Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for the...
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Event | Annual Yoken Lecture: Timothy Mooney’s Molière Than Thou
Timothy Mooney as Tartuffe Actor and author Timothy Mooney will deliver the Annual Mel and Cindy Yoken Cultural Series Lecture on Monday, April 11 at 4 p.m. in the Carmichael Auditorium at 85 Waterman...
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Brown in the Great War
A new digital resource that highlights materials from the University Archives and Special Collections is now available: “Brown in the Great War.” The website focuses on Brown community members who...
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Exhibit | Cardboard Revolution: Cartoneras, Literacy, and Sustainable...
On March 31, 2016, the Brown University Library will host the reception for the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) annual conference. As part of the conference, the Library is mounting an exhibit...
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Wilmeth Lecture & Exhibit |“Actors and Other Monsters: Graphic Satire As...
“Crowding to the Pit,” print by Theodore Lane, 1821 (after Robert Dighton). On Monday, March 21, 2016 at 7 p.m. at the John Hay Library, Joseph Roach, the Sterling Professor of Theater at Yale...
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Special Collections | Hubert Jennings Papers on Fernando Pessoa
Hubert Jennings at enlistment for World War I In October 2015, Christopher Jennings and Bridget Winstanley, son and daughter of British and South African scholar Hubert Dudley Jennings, donated their...
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Exhibit | Tripping the Light Fantastic: Experimental Optics in the Victorian Era
In 1704, Isaac Newton published the first scientific work on light. Working carefully but not very cautiously, Newton began compiling the results of hundreds of experiments he performed in the quiet...
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Event | Annual Yoken Lecture: Timothy Mooney’s Molière Than Thou
Timothy Mooney as Tartuffe Actor and author Timothy Mooney will deliver the Annual Mel and Cindy Yoken Cultural Series Lecture on Monday, April 11 at 4 p.m. in Carmichael Auditorium at 85 Waterman...
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Event | Bill Rankin on “The Map, the Grid, and the Politics of Space, 1915 –...
On Friday, April 8, 2016 at noon in the Population Studies and Training Center in Mencoff Hall, Bill Rankin, Assistant Professor of the History of Science at Yale University, will give a talk, “The...
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Event | Terra Huber on “The Conservation of a 16th Century Papal Bull on...
During preservation During National Preservation Week on Friday, April 29, 2016 from 2 – 3 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Terra Huber, Assistant Paper Conservator at...
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Event | Tara Nummedal and Donna Bilak: “Tear the Books Apart: Atalanta...
On Thursday, April 21, 2016, at 12 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, scholars Tara Nummedal and Donna Bilak will speak about their digital publication, Project Atalanta....
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