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Don Waters Presents “Digital Humanities and Scholarly Communications”
Donald J. Waters—Program Officer for Scholarly Communications and Information Technology at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—will be giving a talk on Digital Humanities in the Digital Scholarship Lab...
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Updates From Around the Library
Here are a few recent highlights from some of the Library’s various blogs: The John Hay Library Renovation Blog has an update of how the renovation process is going. According to the post, “The...
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Jim Head Presents “Exploring the Antarctic Dry Valleys”
The above photo is of Jim Head and two students in the Antarctic landscape. On Thursday, November 21 in the Digital Scholarship Lab, Jim Head will talk about exploring the remote and extremely cold...
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Warren Commission Report available online
In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the U.S. Government Printing Office has made the official, digital version of the Warren Commission Report...
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Mapping Arts Project Event in the Digital Scholarship Lab
The Mapping Arts Project is publicly launching Mapping Arts Project-Providence on Thursday, December 12 in the Digital Scholarship Lab. This project—a collaborative effort by Brown University graduate...
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Exhibit of Dresden and Nymphenburg Porcelains from the Anne S. K. Brown...
Next week the exhibit of the Dresden and Nymphenburg Porcelains from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection opens in the Rockefeller Library. This exhibit will be on display from December 9, 2013 to...
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The Art of Illusion Exhibit: Selections from the H. Adrian Smith Collection...
The Art of Illusion Exhibit opens this week in the Rockefeller Library. This exhibit will be on display from December 5, 2013 to March 26, 2014. The Art of Illusion highlights selections from the H....
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Carberry Day
A young Josiah Carberry.Photo Credit: Cindy Cornett Seigle In honor of Carberry Day—on Friday, December 13 at 3 p.m. in the Laura and David Finn Reading Room of the Rockefeller Library—the Library will...
View ArticleCNI Podcast with Harriette Hemmasi: Brown University Libraries Supporting...
In this interview recorded at the 2013 Fall Membership Meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), University Librarian Harriette Hemmasi discusses the Brown University Library Digital...
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Updates From Around the Library (January 2014)
Here are a few recent highlights from some of the Library’s various blogs: The John Hay Library Renovation Blog has an update regarding the ongoing renovation: “The John Hay Library has been closed...
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Submit Your Rock Memories
The Rockefeller Library is turning 50 this year. As part of our anniversary celebration, the Library is gathering and sharing stories from alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends of the library...
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Libguide of the Week: Anthropology Created by Carina Cournoyer
This week, the Library would like to highlight the Anthropology Subject Guide created by Social Sciences Librarian Carina Cournoyer. One of the great things about the Anthropology Subject Guide is the...
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Happy Birthday Frederick Douglass
Photo credit: from the “Lincoln Broadsides” collection Like many of those born into slavery, Frederick Douglass had no idea of the date of his birth. He knew neither his age nor the day on which to...
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Today: Roderick Coover and Scott Rettberg in the DSL
On February 21 at noon in Digital Scholarship Lab, Roderick Coover and Scott Rettberg will give a public lecture sharing their work as well talking about their films: Three Rails Live and Toxi-City....
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Thank You to Everyone Who Completed the Library’s E-book Survey
Thank You to the nearly 1,400 Brown students and faculty who completed the Library’s E-book survey. The Brown University Library recently conducted a survey along with seven other colleges (Bates,...
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Women’s History Month
Katherine Milhous, the artist who designed this postcard image, is remembered today as an illustrator and author of children’s books. Her most notable book remains The Egg Tree, which won the...
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Upcoming Mendeley Workshops
The Library is offering two upcoming Mendeley Workshops. The first is on March 17, 2014 and the second is on March 20, 2014. Both are at 5:30 p.m. in the Hecker Center (Rockefeller Library). The first...
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Images of the Great War: The European Offensives 1914-1916 Exhibit at the...
On the Road to Sedan, Frank Elim, November 1915, watercolor on paper Images of the Great War: The European Offensives 1914-1916, a selection of World War I paper-based art from the Brown University...
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Lecture by Praveena Gullapalli: Exhibits, Display Strategies, and Visitor...
Dr. Praveena Gullapalli, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rhode Island College Praveena Gullapalli, Archaeologist and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island College, will be at the...
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G. Thomas Couser ’77 to Deliver Annual Yoken Lecture – April 22
G. Thomas Couser ’77 G. Thomas Couser ‘77, Professor Emeritus of English at Hofstra University, will deliver the annual Mel and Cindy Yoken Cultural Series Lecture on Tuesday, April 22 at 5:30 p.m. in...
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