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New Database Trial: Digital Sanborn Maps
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Now until 12/28/06, the Library has free access online to Digital Sanborn Maps covering 1867-1970. This series of maps was created for fire insurance companies and contain information such as use and owner of each building and site. The series deals with over 12,000 American municipalities, showing great detail at 50 ft. per inch. To logon, please go to Database Trials Page at http://dl.lib.brown.edu/eresources/restr/trials.php For further information, contact Thomas_Stieve@brown.edu -
Library Contributions to Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice
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The report of University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice can be read or downloaded from http://brown.edu/Research/Slavery_Justice/
The Library has contributed to the work of the Committee in these ways:- A digital repository of historical documents, prepared by the Center for Digital Initiatives: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/slaveryandjustice/
- A digital collection on the voyage of the slave ship Sally in 1764, the year of Brown’s founding: http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/sally/ (also prepared by CDI).
- A subscription to the journal Slavery and Abolition, including complete backfile
- There is a small exhibition in the Rock lobby of documents from the collections of the Brown University Library that were examined by the Steering Committee as part of its research. The first case covers slavery in the context of Southeastern New England and contains pamphlets and broadsides from the Sidney S. Rider Collection and the Starred Books collection at the John Hay Library. The second case covers slavery and Brown University, and consists of documents from the Brown University Archives. Digital versions of many of these items are included in the online repository of historical documents listed above.
- There is now a Slavery & Slave Trade page in the Library Resource Guide for American History. You can take a peek here: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/gateway/program.php?programid=30&task=topic&topic_id=114
For further information contact: Holly_Snyder@brown.edu
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Library Electronic Resources Vendor Fair 10/25/06
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Coming soon! The Second Annual Brown University Library Eresources Vendor Fair is on OCTOBER 25, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. in the LEUNG GALLERY at Faunce House.
Enter to win PRIZES like an iPod, journal subscriptions, and more! Have a SNACK or some LUNCH. Talk with the vendors who provide many of the electronic resources the Library makes available to you. Librarians will be there to see that you eat, AND connect you with the right subject vendor.
More information? Contact Anne_Nolan@brown.edu.