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Announcement | Erika Sevetson Selected as National Library of Medicine/Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Leadership Fellow
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Erika Sevetson, Health Sciences Librarian and the Library’s Director of Academic Engagement for Health, Biomedical, and Physical Sciences The Library is pleased to announce Erika Sevetson’s selection into the National Library of Medicine/Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Leadership Fellows Program. This jointly sponsored program matches five fellows and five mentors in a one-year program that prepares emerging leaders for director positions in academic health sciences libraries.
The program provides a combination of in-person and virtual learning experiences for fellows and offers the opportunity to work collaboratively with the cohort of participants. Fellows are paired with mentors who are academic health sciences library directors. Mentors work closely with their fellows throughout the year, and host their fellow’s visit to their library.
Fellows are chosen based on a substantial record of leadership accomplishment and potential for a director position. We are delighted that Erika was selected from among a highly competitive candidate pool to be one of five fellows in the cohort. Her place in this group is a great and well-deserved recognition of Erika’s outstanding work and leadership to date as Brown’s Health Sciences Librarian and the Library’s Director of Academic Engagement for Health, Biomedical, and Physical Sciences. The fellowship also contributes to Brown’s emergence as a major center for research and education in the life sciences.
Please join us in congratulating Erika on this tremendous honor and opportunity.
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Announcement | Nicholas Friesner, Senior Library Specialist – Assessment
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Nicholas Friesner, Senior Library Specialist – Assessment The Library is pleased to announce the transfer of Nicholas Friesner from Technical Services to the Office of the University Librarian as Senior Library Specialist – Assessment. This is a new position that will assist in the Library’s expanded focus on assessment, supporting the strategic plan as well as operational and user assessment activities.
Nicholas began his new role on September 16.
Prior to this new position, Nicholas served as Senior Library Specialist – Technical Services for two years, working with the Shared Cataloging team and also working with manuscripts/archival materials at the Rock.
Nicholas earned his Ph.D. in Religious Studies at Brown. His prior library experience includes working in Special Collections at the Yale Divinity School library and in the Catalog Maintenance Department at Johns Hopkins University’s Milton S. Eisenhower library. Additionally, his very first library employment was as a work-study book shelver in the Rock when he was an undergraduate over a decade ago.
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Family Weekend Forum | Furnace & Fugue
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Allison Levy, Digital Scholarship Editor On Saturday, October 19, 2019 at 11 a.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, join Allison Levy of the Brown University Library’s Digital Publications Initiative for an engaging look at the changing face of 21st-century scholarship.
Free and open to the public.
A Q&A period will conclude the program.
Furnace & Fugue
Demoing the Initiative’s pilot project, Furnace and Fugue, alongside Atalanta fugiens, the rare and elegantly illustrated alchemical book that inspired it, Levy will show how Brown Professor of History Tara Nummedal has turned to innovative digital tools to create new and more dynamic scholarly experiences.
Screen capture of an interactive page from Furnace & Fugue Re-rendering a multimedia 17th-century text as an online publication, Furnace and Fugue allows readers to hear, see, manipulate, and investigate a work in ways that were perhaps imagined when it was composed but were simply impossible to realize in full before now. Whether through interactive visualizations of modern notation or a multifunctional space that allows users to curate, save, and share their own selection and arrangement of alchemical emblems, Furnace and Fugue makes possible the capabilities implied by this early modern book with digital tools and features that also clarify and/or advance the arguments of the eight scholarly essays included in the work.
Allison Levy
Allison Levy is Digital Scholarship Editor at Brown University Library. An art historian educated at Bryn Mawr College, she has taught in the US, Italy, and the UK. Allison has published widely on the visual culture of early modern Italy and serves as General Editor of the book series Visual and Material Culture, 1300–1700, published by Amsterdam University Press.
Date: Saturday, October 19, 2019
Time: 11 a.m.
Location: Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library, Providence, RI