Event and Exhibit | Unicorn Found: Science, Literature, and the Arts
On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 from 4 – 5:30 p.m., the John Hay Library will host a faculty colloquium entitled Unicorn Found: Science, Literature, and the Arts. Part of the larger Unicorns in...
View ArticleEvent | Open Access in the Humanities: Benefits, Challenges and Economics...
On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 2 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Martin Paul Eve will deliver a talk entitled, “Open Access in the Humanities: Benefits, Challenges, and...
View ArticleCBS News Report Features Two Brown Alumni, Malcolm X, and Materials from the...
As a senior at Brown, Malcolm Burnley ’12 discovered a story in the Brown Daily Herald about a 1961 visit Malcolm X made to campus in order to debate the author of a previous Brown Daily Herald story,...
View ArticleThe Art of American Bookcovers 1875 – 1930 with Richard Minsky
On April 22, 2015 at 5:30 p.m. in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library, Richard Minsky will give a talk, “The Art of American Bookcovers 1875 – 1930: One Hundred Great Covers from the Brown...
View ArticleExhibit | Unicorn Found: Science, Literature, and the Arts – In Person and...
The John Hay Library is pleased to host the Unicorn Found: Science, Literature, and the Arts exhibit, on display in the lobby cases and Willis Reading Room cases from March 11 – July 31, 2015. The...
View ArticleExhibit | Lincoln Covers and Stamps
An exhibit featuring Lincoln stamps and covers and First Day Covers is on display in the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection Gallery at the John Hay Library. The exhibit will be available for viewing...
View ArticleHappy Josiah S. Carberry Day!
The Brown University Library celebrates Josiah S. Carberry every Friday the 13th. Consider leaving your loose change in a Brown jug (AKA “cracked pot”) to benefit the Josiah Carberry Fund. The jugs...
View ArticleEvent | Finding a Balance: Conservation of the Cased Images from the John Hay...
The Library is celebrating Preservation Week with a talk about the conservation of our daguerreotypes on Friday, May 1 at 2 p.m. in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab at the John D. Rockefeller,...
View ArticleEvent | G. Thomas Couser ’77 to Deliver Annual Yoken Lecture
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 Monday, April 27 at 5:30 p.m. in...
View ArticleEvent and Workshop |“The HathiTrust Research Center: Bringing you 4.7 billion...
The Virtual Humanities Lab in the Department of Italian Studies at Brown University, in collaboration with the Center for Digital Scholarship in the Brown University Library, will host an...
View ArticleEvent | Sinai Rusinek: Unraveling Intertextualities in “The Star of Redemption”
On Wednesday, April 15, at noon in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, Sinai Rusinek will give a talk entitled, “Unraveling Intertextualities in ‘The Star of Redemption.'” The “annotated star” is...
View ArticleCelebrate National Library Week
Celebrate National Library Week, April 12 – 18, with the theme “Unlimited possibilities @ your library®.” First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the...
View ArticleEvent | Pizza Nights
You’ve been waiting all semester for this… Pizza Nights! Every year the Library hosts two nights of pizza. The first (Tuesday) night will be in the Sciences Library. The next night there will be pizza...
View ArticleWinner of the 2015 Undergraduate Research Prize for Excellence in Library...
The Brown University Library is pleased to announce the winner of the 2015 Undergraduate Prize for Excellence in Library Research. Beatrice Selen Senocak ’15 was selected for her paper entitled “A...
View ArticleEvent | Guided Relaxation Study Break
The Library invites students to a guided relaxation session in the Zero Decibel area of the Friedman Center in the SciLi on Thursday, April 30 from 4 – 5 p.m. Work/Life Program Specialist Jen McKay...
View ArticleS. J. Perelman | Newest Release from the Brown Ziggurat Press
S. J. Perelman is the title and subject of the latest book from the Brown Ziggurat Press, part of the Brooke Hunt Mitchell Distinguished Author Series. The book consists of an essay by Daniel Asa Rose...
View ArticleEvent | Li Wang: Trends in Chinese Literature Today and the Pamphlets for...
On Monday, May 4 at 11 a.m. in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Dr. Li Wang will give a talk entitled, “Trends in Chinese Literature Today and the Pamphlets for...
View ArticleBeijing Foreign Studies University Delegation Visit to the Brown University...
On April 29, 2015, a delegation from Beijing Foreign Studies University visited Brown University and the Library. Headed by Professor Peng Long, President of Beijing Foreign Studies University, the...
View ArticleLibrary Innovation Prize Winner 2015
The Library is pleased to announce that Andrew Beers ‘15 is the winner of this year’s Library innovation Prize. Andrew’s presentation entitled “Grand Banks Iceberg Mapper” used data from the U.S....
View ArticleEvent | Marilyn Deegan: Digital Cultural Heritage and the Healing of a...
The Center for Digital Scholarship at the Brown University Library presents Digital Cultural Heritage and the Healing of a Nation: Digital Sudan and the Rwanda Gacaca Archive Digitization Project....
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