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Providing Library Services Across the Research Lifecycle: Flow Cytometry and Sorting Facility Data Documentation and Public Access Project

By Andrew Creamer, Scientific Data Management Specialist Brown’s Health Sciences Librarian, Erika Sevetson (R), poses with Brown’s Metadata Librarian, Ann Caldwell (C), and Brown’s Flow Cytometry and Sorting Facility Manager, Kevin Carlson (L). The Brown University Library and Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) have begun an exciting pilot with Browns Flow Cytometry and Sorting Facility Providing Library Services Across the Research Lifecycle: Flow Cytometry and Sorting Facility Data Documentation and Public Access Project

Researcher Support Services for Data Management and Sharing

Andrew Creamer, Scientific Data Management Specialist This semester consider utilizing Brown University Library’s researcher support services related to managing, publishing, and sharing your research data. Writing Data Management and Sharing Plans: The Library offers a service to assist you with the writing of a data management and/or data sharing plan required by public and private Researcher Support Services for Data Management and Sharing

Digital Repository Manager appointed

We are pleased to announce that Joseph Rhoads joined the Library on February 1st as our new Digital Repository Manager. Joseph was formerly the Digital Curator at the Antonio J. Waring Jr. Archaeology Lab at the University of West Georgia where he led the development of an online, searchable, digital archive of documents, reports, maps, Digital Repository Manager appointed

Digital Garabaldi Panorama Tours Italy

The Garibaldi panorama was created around 1860 by John James Story, and is one of the few remaining examples of this type of commercial entertainment. In 2007, with financial support from the Department of Italian Studies and Vincent J. Buonanno (Brown 66), the Brown University Library digitized the panorama and added it to the Garibaldi/Risorgimento Digital Garabaldi Panorama Tours Italy

“In the stacks of the livebrary”

Jeffery T. Schanapp will give a talk entitled “In the stacks of the livebrary” at 5:30 on February 2nd, in the Lownes Room, John Hay Library, followed by a reception in the lobby. This will be the third talk of the Digital Arts & Humanities 2011-2011 lecture series, co-sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center “In the stacks of the livebrary”

Towards Understanding the Ecology of Art History

Maximilian Schich of the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University, will be giving a talk on “Understanding the Ecology of Art History”, 4:00pm Tuesday, December 13th in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library. Within their work, art historians, archeologists, and their predecessors across centuries have accumulated large amounts of structured data, Towards Understanding the Ecology of Art History

“The Spatial Turn in History” A Talk by Stanford Professor Richard White – Second Talk of the Digital Arts and Humanities Lecture Series

Richard White will give a talk entitled The Spatial Turn in History at 5:30pm on December 1st, in the Lownes Room, John Hay Library, followed by a reception in the lobby. This will be the second talk of the Digital Arts & Humanities 2011-2012 Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public “The Spatial Turn in History” A Talk by Stanford Professor Richard White – Second Talk of the Digital Arts and Humanities Lecture Series

Digital Humanities Project Wins IMLS National Leadership Grant

TEI Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service (TAPAS), a digital humanities collaboration between the libraries of Brown University and Wheaton College, has been awarded a $250,000 National Leadership Grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), to begin on December 1, 2011 and run for three years. The goal of TAPAS is to create Digital Humanities Project Wins IMLS National Leadership Grant

Digital Humanities Librarian appointed

The Center for Digital Scholarship is pleased to announce that Jean Bauer began her duties as Digital Humanities Librarian on August 1st. Jean Bauer is a historian, database designer, and photographer. She holds degrees in history from the University of Chicago and the University of Virginia, where she is completing her doctoral dissertation, “Revolution Mongers: Digital Humanities Librarian appointed