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Lovecraft and the Republic of Horror
In July of 1935, Robert Bloch wrote to his epistolary mentor H. P. Lovecraft, care of Robert Barlow, whom Lovecraft was visiting in Florida. Bloch, then eighteen, wrote with excitement of an expanding...
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Lecture | Letters Home: Brown Alumni at War | Beth Taylor
Brown Town, 1946. Temporary housing for veterans of World War II erected near Marvel Gymnasium on the city-owned Sessions Street playground at the corner of Elmgrove Avenue and Sessions Street,...
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Lecture | Wayland and Magaziner and (Much) More: The Brown Curriculum through...
On Thursday, December 4 at 5:30 p.m. in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library, Luther Spoehr, Senior Lecturer in Education, will give a talk, “Wayland and Magaziner and (Much) More: The Brown...
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Rock at the Rock
On Friday, November 14 from 7:30 – 10 p.m., the Rock will rock with live band Diamond Doves as the Brown University Library celebrates the 50th anniversary of the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library. The...
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50th Anniversary of the Rock
“We students have adopted it as our own.” –Nancy L. Buc ’65, President, Student Government Association, Pembroke College, November 1964 Since its opening in November 1964, Brown students have...
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Exhibit | Christmas Seals
The Brown University Library is celebrating the holiday season with an exhibit of Christmas Seals, installed in three cases in the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection Gallery at the John Hay Library....
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Wilmeth Lecture | Oskar Eustis, “The Non-Profit Theatre in a Market Society”
On Monday, December 8 at 7 p.m. in Stuart Theatre, Oskar Eustis will deliver the 11th Annual Don Wilmeth Endowed Lectureship in American Theatre, entitled, “The Non-Profit Theatre in a Market...
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Library Extends Hours through Exam Period
In response to students’ requests and the Library’s desire to provide students with safe, comfortable, and functional study spaces, three of the Brown University libraries will be open for extended...
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Movie with a Curator | The Name of the Rose
Need a study break? Sunday, December 7 from 2 – 4 p.m. in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library, enjoy a couple of hours immersed in the world of medieval manuscripts, both on film and in the...
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Pizza Nights at the Library!
Take a break and eat some pizza at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, December 9 at the Sciences Library and Wednesday, December 10 at the Rock. Enjoy some rock candy for dessert! Sponsored by an ever true Brown...
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The Special Collections Reading Room of the John Hay Library will be closed from December 24, 2014, thru January 9, 2015. From January 12 to January 20, 2015, the Special Collections Reading Room will...
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Exhibit | The Great Britain Smiler Sheets
Sixteen sheets of the Smiler stamps are on exhibit in the Anne S.K. Brown Military Gallery of the John Hay Library from January 7 – March 4, 2015. The Smilers are part of the Brown University Library’s...
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Mellon-Funded Digital Scholarship Initiative
Brown will launch a new digital scholarship initiative this spring with a $1.3 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The initiative, to be administered jointly by the University Library...
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Exhibit | The Battle of New Orleans – The “Other” Battle of 1815
Battle of New Orleans and death of Major General Packenham on the 8th of January 1815, West and Joseph Yeager, Hand colored engraving by Yeager after West January 8, 2015 is the bicentennial of the...
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Events | Pembroke Center Explores Feminism in Academia
The Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women has a series of exciting events coming up this spring, which the Library, especially the University Archives, has been supporting. All these...
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RI Library Legislative Awareness Day
Photo: Lennart Tange (flickr) Library lovers across the state are invited to join the Rhode Island Library Association on Tuesday, February 10 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the RI State House Rotunda for...
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Fernando Birri: Mi Patria Son Mis Zapatos
Photo by Wilhelm Reinke The John Hay Library takes great pleasure in announcing the opening of the Fernando Birri Archive of Multimedia Arts. It is an extraordinary collection documenting the long and...
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Happy Josiah Carberry Day!
Josiah Carberry during the Blizzard of 2015, Providence, RI The Brown University Library celebrates Josiah Carberry every Friday the 13th. In honor of the 13th and Valentine’s Day, we invite you to...
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350th Anniversary of the Oldest Continuously Published Scholarly Journal
The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London celebrates its 350th anniversary on March 6, 2015. Published since 1665, not only is it the oldest scholarly journal in the Brown...
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Event | The Life and Literary Influence of H. P. Lovecraft with Author Leslie...
On Thursday, March 12 at 5:30 p.m. in the John Hay Library, esteemed author and authority on the literary macabre, Leslie S. Klinger will deliver a biographical overview of H. P. Lovecraft’s life and...
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