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New Gorham Project Archivist Hired
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If you’re a frequent visitor of the John Hay Library and you happened to stop by in the last four hours you might not have recognized everyone. Rhonda Chadwick, the new Gorham Project Archivist, began her first day today. She will be working on the Gorham Manufacturing Company records which contain over 3,000 linear feet. As some of you may or may not know, the Gorham Manufaturing Company of Providence was one of the premier silver manufacturers in the United States.
Rhonda comes to the Brown with her Masters in Library and Information Science from Simmons College and her B.A. in English and Anthropology from Rhode Island College. She has worked for the Rhode Island School of Design, Smith College, the Rhode Island Historical Society and the UMass Boston on a wide range of archival projects in addition to running her own business as an accountant.
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Works from “Contemporary Architecture”: A Course with Professor Dietrich Neumann
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Miya Schneider & Patrick Till ’13 Trubek & Wislocki Houses, Nantucket, MA. By Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, 1970–1972. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Stop by the Laura and David Finn Reading Room the next time you are in the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library to view Works from “Contemporary Architecture”: A Course with Professor Dietrich Neumann.
Anna M. Giovannini ’13 4×4 House, Kobe, Japan. By Tadao Ando, 2003. In Neumann’s course, students examine stylistic, technological, and methodological developments in architecture since the 1960s; they learn about the work of renowned architects including Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas, and Zaha Hadid; and they study the complex conditions of contemporary architectural production in different parts of the world.
As a final project, Neumann offers his students the choice of either writing a research paper or creating a physical representation of a built structure. This year, Neumann and his Teaching Assistants selected several of his students’ architectural models for display at the Rock. The models vary greatly and include miniatures of the Aquatics & Fitness Center, Brown University; Sogn Benedetg Chapel, Sumvigt, Switzerland; and Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo.
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.
Contact: Jennifer Braga | 401-863-6913
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Brown Provides New Content for World Digital Library
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Screenshot of an Image from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection in the World Digital Library PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — This month the World Digital Library (WDL), an open access website sponsored by UNESCO and the Library of Congress featuring unique cultural materials and national treasures from libraries and archives around the world, has integrated 40 additional images from the Brown University Library. Expanding the WDL’s coverage of Africa, Asia, and South America, an assortment of gouache paintings, watercolors, chromolithographs, pencil drawings, and other works from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection are accompanied by object information and narrative descriptions touching on a variety of themes. And, to strengthen the WDL’s content about Iran, additional Persian materials will be added later this year.
Since 2009, staff from Brown University Library and dozens of other institutions have been working with the WDL to promote cross-cultural awareness by providing access to iconographic stories and achievements from around the globe. Available free of charge on the internet and presented in a multilingual format, the WDL provides a rich and diverse database that can be browsed by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution. Navigation tools and content descriptions are provided in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
The WDL is one of many outreach initiatives undertaken by the Brown University Library to make its collections more accessible and better known around the world. The Brown University Library also hosts an extensive set of digitized materials on its website.
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.
Contact: Jennifer Braga | 401-863-6913
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