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Announcing Brown University’s 2011-2012 Digital Arts and Humanities Lecture Series
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – September 1, 2011 The Brown University Library and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage are excited to announce a Digital Arts and Humanities Lecture Series for the 2011-2012 academic year.The purpose of this new series is to engage Brown faculty and students in the digital arts and humanities by revealing the power of new digital approaches to transform traditional scholarship. By bringing some of the most prominent advocates of digital humanities to campus, we hope to inspire Brown scholars and encourage expanded programs focused on digital scholarship at Brown.
Events will kick off at 5:30pm on Monday, October 3, 2011 with the talk “Remembering Networks: Agrippa, RoSE, and Network Archaeology” by renowned digital scholar, Alan Liu in the second floor Lownes Room at the John Hay Library, followed by a reception. Liu is Chair and Professor of the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, an affiliated faculty member of UCSB’s Media Arts & Technology graduate program, and the author of The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information, and Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database. He founded the NEH funded Teaching with Technology project at UC Santa Barbara, Transcriptions: Literature and the Culture of Information, and the University of California multi-campus, collaborative research group, Transliteracies: Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading.
The Digital Arts and Humanities Lecture Series will continue through April 2012. Visit the Library website for updates on speakers, dates and times http://library.brown.edu/.
The John Nicholas Brown Center helps connect academic communities and the broader public through history, art, and culture. We support people and organizations that explore, preserve, and interpret cultural heritage. Our programs explore the ways in which the humanities enrich everyday life.
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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Welcome to the Brown University Library!
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With the start of every academic year comes that familiar mixture of anticipation and anxiety. For those of you just joining our learning community here at Brown, we’d like you to know that the Library has a variety of spaces, services, resources and support to help alleviate some of that stress and encourage your intellectual pursuits.
For those of you who have found your way back to campus, we’d like to remind you of the many ways the Library can help.
Our study spaces are flexible: find a quiet or social space, one for individual or group study.
Borrow a laptop and charger, headphones, or a DVD from our popular video collection.
Print and scan. Find a book, e-book, or journal articles in our own collections, or borrow from libraries worldwide through our loan programs.
Access our website and its tools from your mobile phone or from your laptop.
Connect with us online or in person for research help.
Visit us at library.brown.edu!
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New eScience Librarian Hired
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It is our pleasure to announce that Amanda Rinehart will be our new eScience Librarian. Amanda comes to us from the USDA’s Horticultural Research Laboratory in Fort Pierce, Florida. She has an MS in Botany and Plant Pathology from Michigan State University and an MS in Library and Information Science from the University of South Florida.Recently she has also served as the scholarly communications consultant to the Society of Nematologists and as a volunteer at the Miley Library of Indian River State College.
She has a wide range of interests including travel, autism, fragile X research, community gardening, multivariate statistics and science communication. Amanda will be located in Rockefeller Library.