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Announcement | Joseph Campbell, Director of Library Facilities
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The Library is pleased to announce that Joseph Campbell will be joining us as Director of Library Facilities.
Joe brings over two decades of professional experience to the position, including five years in Brown’s Facilities Management Department as the HVAC Controls Supervisor. During this time Joe has provided leadership and direction to the Controls Division, including work on several energy management and building automation projects as well as collaborations with various departments within Facilities and across campus, such as Environmental Health and Safety, the Office of Sustainability, and Planning, Design & Construction.
As the Director of Library Facilities, Joe will be part of the Library’s executive team and report directly to the University Librarian. In this role, Joe will bring an understanding of the special characteristics and requirements of collections, study, and research facilities as he assesses Library needs and opportunities relating to facilities quality and building safety. Coordination with campus partners will be an essential part of the job, especially with Facilities Management, Public Safety, Environmental Health and Safety, and Computing and Information Services. Library construction, renovation, and repair efforts are under the director’s purview, as is compliance with University, state, and federal laws and regulations.
Joe has assumed HVAC, power plant, and property management leadership roles in organizations including the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, MA, and Rhode Island Hospital in Providence.
Joe will serve a critical function for the Brown Library, working to ensure continuous improvement in the quality and functionality of Library spaces for students, faculty, researchers, staff, and visitors, making the Library a safe, inclusive, and welcoming space for academic pursuits. Among the philosophies Joe values is the concept of a collaborative work environment that encourages ongoing growth and skill development for individuals as well as a strong appreciation of the benefits of continuous process improvements.
Joe’s first day at the Library is November 4, 2019.
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Event | Authors in the Archives with Lauren Russell and Megan Milks
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Join the Brown University Library for an unforgettable night of poetry, fiction, and discussion of how library and archival research is essential to creative and literary endeavors. Lauren Russell and Megan Milks will both read from their works, followed by a discussion led by librarians and archivists about how they are using primary sources. A Q&A period will conclude the presentation.
The first event in the Authors in the Archives series, this talk will take place on Monday, October 28, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. in the Willis Reading Room of the John Hay Library.
Free and open to the public. A light reception will follow the talk.
Lauren Russell
Lauren Russell Lauren Russell is the author of What’s Hanging on the Hush (Ahsahta Press, 2017) and Descent, a winner of the 2019 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards and a finalist for the National Poetry Series, forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky Press in 2020. A 2017 NEA Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry, she has also received fellowships and residencies from Cave Canem, The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, VIDA/The Home School, the Rose O’Neill Literary House, the Millay Colony, and City of Asylum/Passa Porta. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, boundary 2, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, and Bettering American Poetry 2015, among others. She is assistant director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics at the University of Pittsburgh.
Megan Milks
Megan Milks Megan Milks is the recipient of the 2019 Lotos Foundation Prize in Fiction Writing. Their first book, Kill Marguerite and Other Stories, won the 2015 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Fiction and was named a Lambda Literary Award finalist. They have also published four chapbooks, most recently Kicking the Baby and The Feels, an exploration of fan fiction and affect. Their critical writing, for which they won a 2014 Critical Hit Award from Electric Lit, has been published in 4Columns, Los Angeles Book Review, and The New Inquiry, among other venues. Their work as editor includes The &NOW Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing, 2011-2013 (Northwestern UP, 2015) and Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives (Routledge, 2014); currently, they edit the Fiction section of The Account.
Authors in the Archives
The Authors in the Archives series features notable writers whose work is brought to fruition through their creative and sagacious use of primary source materials.
Accessibility
To request special services, accommodations, or assistance for this event, please contact Jennifer Braga at Jennifer_Braga@brown.edu or (401) 863-6913 as far in advance of the event as possible. Thank you.
Date: Monday, October 28, 2019
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Willis Reading Room, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street, Providence -
Events | Open Access Week @Brown
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October 21 – 27, 2019 is Open Access Week, and the Brown University Library is marking the occasion with two events:
Brown Bag on Open Access and Publishing
Wednesday, October 23
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
121 South Main Street, Providence
Free
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Celebrate International Open Access Week by joining Doctoral Candidate Jason Gantenberg, Public Health Librarian Erin Anthony, and Data Management Librarian Andrew Creamer for a Brown Bag discussion on Open Access and Publishing. Get an overview of Open and the many paths to making a publication open. Questions welcomed!Transform the Narrative: A Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon for Increasing Marginalized Voices in Environmental Justice
Wednesday, October 23
3 – 6 p.m.
Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library
Free
Registration required
Join the Brown University Libraries in collaboration with SACNAS for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon focusing on increasing awareness of marginalized voices in environmental justice. This hands-on workshop will teach you how to edit Wikipedia entries to increase visibility of marginalized voices in environmental activism. There will be autumnal snacks!What is Open?
The open movement seeks to work towards solutions of many of the world’s most pressing problems in a spirit of transparency, collaboration, re-use and free access.
Why Open@Brown?
The open movement implicitly supports several facets of Brown’s Strategic Plan, Building on Distinction. The values and goals set forth in commitments toward Integrative Scholarship and Academic Excellence rely upon open communication and sharing of knowledge that could occur organically through an open paradigm of research and teaching.
The open movement:
- Promotes the acceleration of research,
- Increases the potential for collaboration,
- Contributes to the democratization of information, and
- Supports community partnerships.
More information on Open@Brown