The Center for Digital Scholarship at Brown University Library has produced a new, short informational video for centerNet, an international network of digital humanities centers. The Library congratulates Jean Bauer, our Digital Humanities Librarian, for being appointed centerNet’s new secretary.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Brown University Library is pleased to announce the release of its newest publication, Dealing with Data. Dealing with Data features contributions by Library staff and Brown faculty including Harriette Hemmasi, Catherine Busselen, Ann Caldwell, Jean Bauer, Julia Flanders, Amanda Rinehart, John Cayley, Sue Alcock, and Jan S. Hesthaven. The authors discuss a … “Dealing with Data” – New Library Publication Now Availaible
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Stop by the Laura and David Finn Reading Room the next time you are in the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library to view Works from “Contemporary Architecture”: A Course with Professor Dietrich Neumann. In Neumann’s course, students examine stylistic, technological, and methodological developments in architecture since the 1960s; they learn … Works from “Contemporary Architecture”: A Course with Professor Dietrich Neumann
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — This month the World Digital Library (WDL), an open access website sponsored by UNESCO and the Library of Congress featuring unique cultural materials and national treasures from libraries and archives around the world, has integrated 40 additional images from the Brown University Library. Expanding the WDL’s coverage of Africa, Asia, and … Brown Provides New Content for World Digital Library
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — In celebration of the Year of China, now through June, Orwig Music Library at 1 Young Orchard Avenue is hosting an exhibition of Chinese music: “Cultural Revolutions: A Study in Contrasts” curated by Senior Library Specialist, Nancy Jakubowski. The exhibit features Maoist propaganda songs, “model theatrical works” from The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and samplings from … Cultural Revolutions: A Study in Contrasts – On View at Orwig Music Library
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — On Monday, May 21 at 11am, Brown University Library will host a welcome reception for distinguished guests from the Cross-Straits Tea Exchanges Association in the Laura and David Finn Reading Room of the John D. Rockefeller Library. The delegation of the association is led by Mr. Zhang Jiakun, former Executive … Traditional Tea Ceremony and Reception
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Sergei Diaghilev, director of the Ballets Russes, emigrated to France in 1911. Always in search of innovations, he created a surrealist version of Romeo and Juliet in 1926, for which he commissioned Max Ernst and Joan Miró to create the sets. The poets Louis Aragon and André Breton, who regarded … Library Acquires Broadside from Surrealist Riot
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — On Thursday, May 3, 2012, Dr. Li Wang of Brown University Library will give a talk entitled “Emerging China’s Publishing Soft Power: Trends, Challenges, and Strategies for Academia” at 4pm in the Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute at 111 Thayer Street. This talk is sponsored by Brown University’s Year of China. … Dr. Li Wang on China’s “Soft Power”
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Brown University Library is pleased to announce that David Adler ’14 is the recipient of the sixth annual Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Library Research, generously funded by Douglas W. Squires, ’73. This award, established in partnership with the Office of the Dean of the College, recognizes undergraduate projects that … David Adler ’14 Receives 6th Annual UGRA Award
Professor Josiah S. Carberry will unfortunately not be lecturing this evening at the John Hay Library. The Providence weather has so distracted him from his research that he was compelled to take a last minute flight to Rio de Janeiro. In his absence, he encourages donations to the Josiah S. Carberry Fund through http://library.brown.edu/alumni/gifts/ The … Please Note: Carberry Lecture Cancelled!
