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Upcoming Exhibit: Dresden and Nymphenburg Porcelains from the Anne S. K....
While John Nicholas Brown was working with the allied forces in Germany in 1945 reporting on stolen art works, he visited the factory at Nymphenburg in Bavaria and ordered 21 porcelain figures for his...
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Upcoming Exhibit: The Art of Illusion: Selections from the H. Adrian Smith...
H. Adrian Smith, Brown class of 1930, assembled during his lifetime one of the finest private collections of magic books, manuscripts, and ephemera. The exhibit will feature Smith’s rich collections...
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Register for the Grant Finding Workshop on August 27
Do you need money for your research? Does your tenure, promotion, or future job prospects hinge on getting external grants? Sign up for tomorrow’s Grant Finding training session. In the session,...
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Fall 2013 Events and Exhibits at Brown University Library
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] —Brown University Library is pleased to announce that our new schedule of events and exhibits for Fall 2013 is now ready! You can pick up a copy at any Library...
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Welcome to the Library
The Brown University Library welcomes all new and returning students. Here are just a few of the opportunities available at the library. For those who are returning, this is a good reminder of what...
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Brown University Library Acquires Rare Book in Honor of President Paxson
The title page from Francis Glisson’s “De Rachitide sive Morbo Puerili, qui volgo The Rickets” PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Brown University Library has purchased a copy of the first edition...
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Professor Josiah S. Carberry’s Thirty Under Thirty
Everything about the history and legend of Josiah S. Carberry can seem bigger, faster, and more intense than any other history or legend in the world. The facts or general lack of them can overwhelm...
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Made Not Born: The Wife and Dimes of Josiah S. Carberry is Available Online
For years, the Brown Community has yearned for someone to put that movie about Josiah Carberry online. Even before the internet existed, the followers of Josiah S. Carberry would badger anyone with...
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The New York Times Online Comes to Brown
The University Library, with support from the Office of the Provost, is pleased to announce the availability of The New York Times via a site license for the Brown community. The site license enables...
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First Readings Lecture on September 17th
Eyal Press ’92, author of Beautiful Souls, is delivering this year’s First Readings lecture. It will be held in Salomon Center at 4:30 p.m. If you can’t make it to campus, the lecture will be...
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Commander David R. Scott in the DSL on September 26
Commander David R. Scott is the first guest in this fall’s Digital Speaker Series. Scott will describe his journey to the Moon in the summer of 1971 and the Apollo 15′s exploration of the Apennine...
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New Exhibit | Love Medicine | Beads, Bark, and Books from Ojibwe Country |...
Join us in reading Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine for the 2013–2014 Big Read in Rhode Island, hosted by the Tomaquag Museum with support from Brown University. This exhibit draws on the collections of...
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Coming Soon: Digital Scholarship Week (November 7–November 15)
Next week is the beginning of Digital Scholarship Week at Brown. Here is a list of upcoming events: November 7 | Can Participatory Maps Save the World | a talk by Jo Guldi (Assistant Professor of...
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Center for Digital Scholarship Launches New Website
The Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) recently launched its newly designed website. Please take a moment and check it out. The Center for Digital Scholarship, a cross-departmental group...
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Profile on Jo Guldi
Jo Guldi is an assistant professor of history at Brown University. She will be giving a talk today (November 7 2013) at 5:30 p.m. in the DSL called: Can Participatory Maps Save the World? Guldi was...
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An Evening with 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winning Dramatist, Ayad Akhtar ’93
The Library is honored to present Ayad Akhtar (Brown alum ’93) as the speaker for the 10th Annual Don Wilmeth Endowed Lectureship in American Theatre. The lecture will be on Monday, December 9 at 7...
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Flatland Worldwide Event
On November 13, Tom Banchoff (Brown Professor of Mathematics) will discuss his research on the fourth dimension, including his biography of Edwin A. Abbott, The Man Who Wrote ‘Flatland.’ Flatland is...
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Dan Cohen Lecture: “The Emerging Research Environment and the Digital Public...
A new environment for scholarly research is emerging out of the steady accumulation of digitized sources over the last two decades, contemporary models for accessing those sources, and novel methods...
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John Caserta presents “Data-driven Design Systems for the Web”
John Caserta is a designer, artist, and educator. He has created and produced information-design projects and data-driven applications for The New York Times, Reuters, The Normandy Visitor’s Center in...
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Upcoming Josiah Carberry Cooking Demonstration and Cookbook Signing
PHOTO CREDIT: Paul Wordingham At the moment Professor Josiah Carberry has taken advantage of the non-existent, mid-semester, harvest break to go fishing for squirrels or some other kind of non-aquatic...
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