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Announcement | Steven Lubar Appointed Faculty Director of CDS

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The Brown University Library is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Steven Lubar as the inaugural Faculty Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS). Serving as a senior Library leader during this three-year appointment, Professor Lubar will spearhead the development of academic programming relating to digital scholarship at Brown, working closely with Library … Announcement | Steven Lubar Appointed Faculty Director of CDS

Events | Love Data Week 2020

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What is Love Data Week? Love Data Week is an international celebration of data, aiming to raise awareness and build a community to engage on topics related to research data management, sharing, preservation, reuse, and library-based research data services. #LoveData20 Join us and register for Brown’s Inaugural Love Data Week February 10 – 14, 2020! … Events | Love Data Week 2020

Announcement | Justin Uhr, Senior Library Technologist-Digital Resources Projects Assistant

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Justin Uhr has joined the Library’s Digital Technologies team as a Digital Resources Projects Assistant. His focus is primarily on data cleaning, wrangling, and assessment.  Prior to joining Brown, Justin spent over a year as a stay-at-home parent and worked as a Support Analyst for Deloitte and as a Sustainability Coordinator for YR&G, an architectural … Announcement | Justin Uhr, Senior Library Technologist-Digital Resources Projects Assistant

Library Closing at Noon on January 17

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The following Brown University Libraries will close at 12 p.m. on Friday, January 17, 2020 to allow Library staff to attend our annual winter celebration: John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library John Hay Library Sciences Library (Friedman Study Center will remain open) Library Collections Annex Orwig Music Library will remain open. Hours of operation for all … Library Closing at Noon on January 17

Announcement | Hortense J. Spillers Papers Open for Research

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The Pembroke Center’s Feminist Theory Archive and the John Hay Library are proud to announce that the Hortense J. Spillers papers are open for research. Spillers is an American literary critic, Black feminist scholar, and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in English at Vanderbilt University. Her research addresses literary criticism, race and gender; linguistics; the African diaspora; Black culture; and sexuality. She is … Announcement | Hortense J. Spillers Papers Open for Research

Announcement | Digitization of Historic Campus Speeches with CLIR Grant

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Speeches by Civil Rights leaders and other renowned public intellectuals will be preserved and made available for scholarship. Providence, R.I. [Brown University] The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has awarded the Brown University Library $23,215 from its Recordings at Risk program. One of 13 projects selected out of 34 to receive grants from … Announcement | Digitization of Historic Campus Speeches with CLIR Grant

Events | Pizza Nights

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We’re here for you. And we brought pizza. The Library doesn’t want you to study on an empty stomach. Visit us at the Rock or SciLi (or both) for some free pizza from Domino’s. 9 p.m. each night: Tuesday, December 10 at the SciLi (Friedman Study Center) Wednesday, December 11 at the Rock (Lobby) Pizza … Events | Pizza Nights

Announcement | Daniel G. Siegel ’57 Gift and Fellowship

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The Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of books and manuscripts from the personal library of Daniel G. Siegel ’57, a member of the Library Advisory Council, a board member on the Friends of the Library, and a long and dedicated supporter of special collections at Brown. Mr. Siegel has twice received the Library’s highest honor, … Announcement | Daniel G. Siegel ’57 Gift and Fellowship

Event | Scott Rettberg on Electronic Literature: Threads of Practice and Literary Genre in Digital Writing

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On Thursday, December 5, 2019 at 3:30 p.m. in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Scott Rettburg, Professor of Digital Culture in the department of linguistic, literary, and aesthetic studies at the University of Bergen, Norway, will give a talk entitled, “Electronic Literature: Threads of Practice and Literary Genre in Digital … Event | Scott Rettberg on Electronic Literature: Threads of Practice and Literary Genre in Digital Writing