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Author Charles Rappleye to Give First Readings Lecture
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Charles Rappleye is the author of Sons of Providence. On October 3rd, at 5 p.m., Mr. Rappeleye will give a lecture titled “Past & Present” where he will discuss a variety of topics including—what he learned while writing Sons of Providence, how it changed his thinking about Brown University and early New England, and what it means to be an American both in the present and in the late 1700’s. The talk will be in Salomon on the Main Green.
If you can’t make it to the talk you can watch it online. It will be streamed live on the Brown live stream page.
The talk will be of interest to many first-year students who read Sons of Providence as part of the First Readings program. First Readings is Brown’s summer reading project for all new students. Now in its sixth year, the program provides first-year and transfer students with a common reading experience that introduces them to the University and to the pleasures and rigors of undergraduate academic life.
Charles Rappleye was an award-winning investigative journalist and editor. He lives in Los Angeles.
Also of note, this is the last week to see the Rhode Island Slavery and the University exhibit at the John Hay Library which was created in support of the Sons of Providence and the First Readings program.
Both events are free and open to the public. -
Roger E. Stoddard to Speak at Brown University Library
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] —Roger E. Stoddard, Brown class of 1957, and former curator of the Harris Collection, will speak at Brown University this fall. For the last fifty years, Stoddard has served as a curator of Houghton Library, taught classes at Harvard, and published extensively.At 12:30pm, on Wednesday, October 24, Stoddard will discuss his time working in the John Carter Brown Library with the talk “The education of a bibliographer by Lawrence Wroth” as part of the JCB’s Wednesday Fellows’ Lunch Talk series. And, at 7pm on Thursday, October 25, in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library he will present “How I discovered that Brown is the University of books.” This talk will examine Stoddard’s research that contributed to his descriptive bibliography of early American poetry, which he began forty years ago at the John Hay Library.An exhibit of early American poetry, The Work of a Lifetime: Roger Stoddard, Early American Poetry, and the Collections of the Libraries at Brown University, curated by Stoddard will simultaneously be on view October 12 through December 14 in the John Hay Library’s Gammell Gallery and North Gallery exhibition rooms.
These events are free and open to the public.
Contact: Rosemary L. Cullen | 401-863-1514 | Rosemary_Cullen@brown.edu -
Library Launches curio, a new blog on digitization!
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — The Brown University Library is pleased to announce the launching of curio a new weekly blog, focusing on imaging rare, unusual, and intriguing objects.The blog is written by Digital Production Services staff about curios, objects that are valued for their unique qualities, both physical and scholarly. Rather than locking away collections in dark cabinets or closed stacks for safekeeping, the John Hay Library promotes the use of its rare and valuable materials in teaching, learning, and research, as well as through public exhibitions. All of the Library’s materials are available for viewing by Library patrons by appointment, and regularly serve the needs of classes, students, faculty, and researchers.
Brown selectively digitizes its Special Collections, providing public access online, anytime, anywhere. The process for deciding which materials will be digitized is closely aligned with teaching and research needs. As a result, Digital Production Services (DPS) staff come in contact with otherwise “hidden” Library artifacts on a daily basis. Many of these unusual items present technical challenges for digitization or description. The blog will feature items that are singled out for their unique properties and for the methods used to digitize them.
As explained by Ann Caldwell, Head, Imaging and Metadata Services, “The staff in Digital Production Services is constantly awed, amused, fascinated, and thrilled by the materials we digitize and describe. In that respect, we’re some of the most fortunate people in the Library. Not only do we get to see these items, but we get to share them with you and digitally preserve them for the future.”
curios joins a growing ecosystem of blogs at the Library, written by librarians and departments including the Library’s “Announcements,” The Center for Digital Scholarship’s “News“, and a soon to launch blog by the University Librarian.
Digital Production Services (DPS) is responsible for digitization of materials in support of scholarship, research, and teaching, as well as metadata production and consulting services for Library and academic units undertaking digital projects. DPS work ranges from projects designed in collaboration with Brown researchers and the Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship to the digitization of “signature collections” from Brown’s world-renowned Special Collections. DPS also offers imaging and metadata consulting for grants and other University initiatives.
The Brown University Library is home to more than 6.8 million print items, plus a multitude of electronic resources and expanding digital archives serving the teaching, research, and learning needs of Brown students and faculty, as well as scholars from around the country and the world. http://library.brown.edu/
Contact: Robin Ness | robin_ness@brown.edu | 401-863-2607