Brown University Library and The Wall Street Journal Brown University Library and The Wall Street Journal have partnered to provide school-sponsored WSJ memberships to all Brown University students, faculty, and staff. Through the partnership, readers have complete and personalized digital access to The Wall Street Journal and the WSJ app. How to activate your complimentary … Announcement | Wall Street Journal Access
The Brown University Library will close at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, August 14, 2019 for the annual staff summer picnic. The following locations will close: Rockefeller Library John Hay Library Orwig Music Library Annmary Brown Memorial Library Annex The Sciences Library will remain open, but there will be no library services available in the Friedman … Announcement | Library Closing at Noon on August 14
WBUR.org has posted an article about the Gay Pulp Fiction collection at the John Hay Library. “Brown University Is Archiving Gay Pulp Fiction To Preserve A Moment Of LGBTQ History” by Miranda Suarez also features Heather Cole, Curator for Literary & Popular Culture Collections, and Finch Collins, a John Hay Library Undergraduate Fellow. 90.9 WBUR-FM … Announcement | WBUR Features Library’s Gay Pulp Fiction Archive
The John Hay Library Undergraduate Fellowship Program serves to assist Brown students with primary source exploration, inviting them to follow their curiosity, questions, and creativity through self-directed projects focused on an area within the vast special collections resources available within the Library. Working closely with Library staff over 10 weeks, the students will each produce … Announcement | John Hay Library Undergraduate Fellowships
June 8, 2019 marked the 70th anniversary of the publishing of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the best-known work of author George Orwell (the pseudonym of Eric Blair, 1903-1950). He composed the novel between 1946 and 1948 on the Scottish island of Jura while suffering from tuberculosis. The book was published in to critical and popular acclaim; Orwell died … Announcement | 70th Anniversary of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Library is pleased to welcome Anna Hernandez! Anna holds the position of Senior Library Specialist for Technical Services. Her work will focus primarily on cataloging our print collections in a variety of languages. One of her first projects will be cataloging a recently purchased collection of science fiction and fantasy works. Anna has lived … Announcement | Anna Hernandez, Senior Library Specialist for Technical Services
In April 2019, Sean Briody ’19 took first place in the John Russell Bartlett Society Stillwell Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting for his distinguished collection of Brunoniana from the 19th and 20th centuries. His collection of Brown University materials is notable for the dense web of personal connections to Brown that are documented in each … Announcement | Sean Briody ’19, Library Student Employee, Receives Stillwell Prize
Congratulations to the 52 Library employees who walked through the Van Wickle Gates during Commencement 2019 to collect their degrees! Our many student workers–undergraduate and graduate–provide invaluable support to the Library’s operations. As one of the largest employers of students at Brown, we welcome many students to our team and enjoy getting to know and … Announcement | Graduating Library Student Employees
Since January 2016, the Sciences Library has participated in the city-wide Goodnight Lights initiative, symbolically saying good night to patients at Hasbro Children’s Hospital by flashing lights on and off from 8 – 8:05 p.m. each night. To add a personal touch to the effort, the Library has added equipment to the display so that … Announcement | A Smile for Goodnight Lights
The landscaping in front of the Rockefeller Library was updated just in time for Commencement Weekend 2019, offering visitors to campus a beautiful view and providing a tranquil home for a meaningful staff memorial. In the fall of 2017, a storm destroyed much of the tree that had shaded the front of the Rock for … Announcement | Landscape Update at the Rockefeller Library
