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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

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

Military Collection Digital Archive surpasses 20,000 images!

The Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection digital archive has just reached an important milestone the 20,000th image. The project to scan all the prints, drawings, paintings and water-colors in the collection began in September 2004 and through the efforts of many staff members, is now the largest repository of special collections materials at Brown. While Military Collection Digital Archive surpasses 20,000 images!

“History is speeding up”

Ted Widmer reflects on Lincoln research, utilizing digitized materials, and blogging: http://news.brown.edu/features/2011/02/disunion . See also the Library’s “Lincolniana at Brown.”

“April is the Cruelest Month…”

What else is there to say about a month that hosts both Tax Day and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln? Drop by the lobby of the John Hay Library to find out. The exhibit features Lincolniana from the Hay Library’s McLellan Lincoln Collection, and constitutes a final farewell to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial. “April is “April is the Cruelest Month…”