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Month: September 2014

Lecture | The Brown Charter: Digital Discoveries

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Brown University’s Charter manuscript exists as two pieces of water-damaged parchment, with few visible letters. To coincide with Brown’s 250th anniversary, Rachel Lapkin, Library Materials Conservator, began working with Digital Production Services photographer Lindsay Elgin to see if modern imaging techniques could reveal more of the original manuscript. Learn about the characteristics of parchment, and … Lecture | The Brown Charter: Digital Discoveries

Spotlight On: SocIndex with Full Text

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SocINDEX with Full Text is a comprehensive sociology research database. This product contains informative abstracts for more than 1300 “core” coverage journals dating back to 1895. In addition, SocINDEX with Full Text provides data mined from more than 450 “priority” coverage journals as well as over 2,900 “selective” coverage journals. Includes extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference … Spotlight On: SocIndex with Full Text

John Hay Night at the Hay Library with Authors John Taliaferro and Joshua Zeitz

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Ever wondered who John Hay was? On Wednesday, October 1 at 5:30 p.m. in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library, you will have the chance to learn more about Brown’s most illustrious alumnus, a poet and diplomat who served three presidents—two of them as Secretary of State. Two authors, John Taliaferro and Joshua … John Hay Night at the Hay Library with Authors John Taliaferro and Joshua Zeitz

Banned Books Week 2014

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Between September 21 and September 27, 2014 the Library will be celebrating Banned Books Week. Every year for Banned Book Week, the American Library Association (ALA) promotes the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinions even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular. The ALA’s goal with Banned Book Week is … Banned Books Week 2014

Music and the Great War Exhibit

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Late summer and early fall of 2014 marks the centennial anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. This war had a dramatic effect on the psychological, political, and aesthetic landscape of Europe and North America. Although it is sometimes overshadowed in twentieth-century history by the second World War, the first World War inspired doubt, cynicism, and … Music and the Great War Exhibit