Brown University Library News

This week the Brown Library welcomes library computer programmers and other library technologists to the 4th annual Code4Lib conference. Code4Lib is a single-track conference, this year capped at 220 attendees. The conference is increasingly becoming THE conference for the library programming community demonstrated by the fact that registration reached capacity in less than 24 hours this year. Over the course of two and a half days attendees will hear three keynote addresses, 22 presentations selected by the Code4Lib community, and 39 5-minute lightning talks by participants who sign up at the conference. Video of conference sessions will be available at Google Video and Internet Archive. The Library provided two scholarships to promote gender and racial diversity among conference attendees. See http://code4lib.org/conference/2009/ for more information

On Saturday, February 28th, the Brown History Department, in conjunction with the Library and the Friends of the Brown University Library, will hold a one-day symposium entitled “Abraham Lincoln for the Twenty-First Century” in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. A schedule of events for the day can be found on the History Department website. The Library’s bicentennial exhibition “Abraham Lincoln: The Man, The Myth, The Making of a President” will be also open for viewing. All events are open to the public.
The symposium will be followed in the evening, by a performance of the Aaron Copland “Lincoln Portrait” by the Rhode Island Philharmonic, narrated by Chief Justice Frank Williams (ret.), at Veterans Memorial Auditorium, located near the Rhode Island State House.