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Library Undergraduate Research Award
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The Library will be awarding two awards of $750 (each) in recognition
of excellence in undergraduate research projects that make creative and extensive use of the University Library’s collections. Application deadline February 15, 2008. For detailed information, see:
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Brown University Library awarded Mellon Foundation grant
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The Brown University Library is pleased to announce that it has received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop a web-based citation parsing service which will improve access to campus scholarship.
“We are very grateful to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for generously supporting our efforts to improve services and facilitate partnerships across campus and throughout the academic community,” said Harriette Hemmasi, Joukowsky Family University Librarian. “The Mellon Foundation has been a great supporter of Brown and its libraries, and has substantially improved our resources for students and scholars. Increasingly, scholarship has taken on a virtual character and it is imperative that the University Library anticipate and respond to changes in the information landscape. This grant will go a long way towards helping us achieve this goal.”
Library staff will use the $73,000 award to improve functionality for the Directory of Research and Researchers, a service offered through the Office of the Vice President for Research, by providing OpenURL links to the scholarly content of over 40,000 citations in the directory. The new functionality will significantly enhance the Directory, which serves an important role in helping Brown faculty promote their own research activities and enables members of the Brown community to keep track of ongoing research here on campus.
“Citation management tools have become increasingly sophisticated but there is currently no product that can parse free-text citations which have been cut-and-pasted from a bibliography or which appear on a web page,” said Jean Rainwater, Co-leader of the library’s Integrated Technology Services. “The grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow the library to develop such a tool and make it available to the community of scholars.”
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Brown Daily Herald: Orwig boasts rich musical collection
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By Matthew Lawrence
Posted: 11/12/07
If you ask Brown students where they find great music, most will probably direct you to the iTunes online store or LimeWire. Few students realize, however, how expansive and accessible the Orwig Music Library is.
Located at 1 Young Orchard Ave., the library opened in 1988 and contains approximately 100,000 music items, including Western classical music, jazz and popular music recordings and materials. The library houses 24,000 scores, 1,100 videos, 25,000 CDs, 21,000 books, 250 journals and around 15,000 LPs as well as manuscripts and music periodicals.
“We have a very rich collection of music from all over the world,” said Music Librarian Edwin Quist.
The Orwig library was not always as prestigious as it is today. According to David Josephson, associate professor of music, the University’s music library began as a small collection of books, scores and LPs at the Rockefeller Library, and a smaller one at the former Pembroke Library. It was overseen by a librarian who specialized in Russian studies and during the 1970s its budget never exceeded $4,000.
With the arrival of Merrily Taylor as University librarian in 1981, the budget began to expand. Josephson arrived at Brown in 1979 and raised $2.5 million in the early 1980s to expand the holdings and make it today “the best music library in New England, after Harvard and Yale” universities, Josephson said.