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Brown Library offers free alumni borrowing
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Effective January 1, 2008, the Brown University Library will offer borrowing privileges free of charge to Brown alumni. In addition to checking out books, alumni borrowers will also be able to make use of our electronic books and journals when visiting the Library at one of several workstations not restricted to current students and faculty.
Initiating your borrowing privileges takes just a few simple steps:
- There will be a one-time fee of $15 associated with processing an identification card.
- Alumni Library Cards will be issued by the Brown Card Office, located in Emery Wooley at 208 Meeting Street; call 401-863-2273 or check the web( http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Financial_Services/Browncard/ ) to verify hours of operation.
- You will have to complete an application 24 hours prior to visiting the card office. The application is available for download (http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/alumni/alumcard.pdf) and can be faxed to the card office (401) 863-1233.
- At your first library visit after receiving your card, Gateway Services staff will verify your contact information and your lifelong borrowing privileges will begin.
- Library hours can be found at (http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/hours.php).
- The Brown Library is the nexus of intellectual life on campus, and we are pleased to be able to offer access to our unique holdings to our extensive network of alumni. Happy reading!
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Re-opening the 17th century: Reading and Spectacle in the French Court
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A student project by Maha Atal ’08 and Sara Damiano ’08 in partial fulfillment of requirements for FREN 1040C “Lire et voir le XVlle siècle aujourd’ hui.”
To the contemporary mind, a reference to 17th century France calls up images of decadence, pleasure, and luxury, embodied in the grand architecture of Versailles. But how was this world interpreted and experienced by the men and women who lived in it? Bringing together original texts by 17th century literary giants from Molière to Racine, visual representations of Versailles, and insights from scholarly works, this exhibit exposes the personal and political dilemmas that governed ambitions in the back corridors of the Sun-King’s court.
December 17, 2007 – February 2008, John Hay Library
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 9 am – 6 pm and Sun 1-5 pm
For more information contact Hay@brown.edu.
Image:Louis XIV and suite arriving at a château c. 1700 -
Providence Phoenix: Brown puts Italian epic painting online
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An article by Greg Cook in the Providence Phoenix details the Brown University Library’s work digitizing the Garibaldi Panorama.
“Two years ago, Brown University’s John Hay Library received an enormous gift: a 273-foot-long 19th century panoramic painting depicting the dashing exploits of Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi. Historic panoramas, often of battles, were popular in the 19th century, but few have survived. So this was not only a big gift, but a rare one. The problem with an enormous piece of art, though, is where to do you put it?”
For the full text of the article visit http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid52461.aspx. To see the Garibaldi Panorama visit http://dl.lib.brown.edu/garibaldi/.