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Announcement | Holly Snyder Presents at RISD Museum Event on Gorham Company

On Friday, May 3, 2019, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum hosted a one-day symposium in conjunction with its exhibit Gorham Silver: Designing Brilliance 1850-1970, at which Holly Snyder, Curator Curator of American Historical Collections and the History of Science at the Brown Library, presented. Holly spoke about the history of the Gorham Announcement | Holly Snyder Presents at RISD Museum Event on Gorham Company

Event | Exhibit Opening Reception for “Learning through Play: British and French Tabletop Games from the 18th and 19th Centuries”

On Friday, May 24, 2019 from 4 – 6 p.m. at the John Hay Library, the exhibit, Learning through Play: British and French Tabletop Games from the 18th and 19th Centuries,” will officially launch with an opening reception. This exhibit was created through a gift of Georgian and Victorian games, along with jigsaw puzzles and Event | Exhibit Opening Reception for “Learning through Play: British and French Tabletop Games from the 18th and 19th Centuries”

Event | The Vietnam War – Enduring Impact on the Brown Community, an Alumni Reunion Forum

In the late 1960s, the Vietnam War was raging. Brown graduates had to make choices – some joined the military, some went to Vietnam, some protested, some left the country, some never came home. The lives of both men and women at Brown were profoundly affected. Come hear from our panelists and join in the Event | The Vietnam War – Enduring Impact on the Brown Community, an Alumni Reunion Forum

Exhibit | Learning through Play: British and French Tabletop Games from the 18th and 19th Centuries

LEARNING THROUGH PLAY: BRITISH AND FRENCH TABLETOP GAMES FROM THE 18th AND 19th CENTURIES Georgian & Victorian Games, Gift of Ellen Liman ‘57, P’88, and Early French Games, Loan from Doug Liman ‘88May 21 – October 11, 2019John Hay Library, Brown University The exhibition will be on display in the John Hay Library’s main gallery Exhibit | Learning through Play: British and French Tabletop Games from the 18th and 19th Centuries

Event | American Sinologist Charles S. Gardner and the Chinese Collection at Brown with Dr. Li Wang

On Friday, May 10, 2019 at 12 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Dr. Li Wang, Curator of East Asian Collection, will give a presentation, “American Sinologist Charles S. Gardner and Chinese Collection at Brown.” This talk is free and open to the public. Coffee and cookies will be available. The Event | American Sinologist Charles S. Gardner and the Chinese Collection at Brown with Dr. Li Wang

Announcement | Amanda Strauss Named Associate University Librarian for Special Collections

The Brown University Library is pleased to announce the appointment of Amanda Strauss as Associate University Librarian for Special Collections. As Associate University Librarian, Ms. Strauss will oversee the University’s outstanding collections of rare books, manuscripts, archives, and other unique and special materials. Reporting to and working in close partnership with Joseph Meisel, Joukowsky Family University Librarian, she will oversee Announcement | Amanda Strauss Named Associate University Librarian for Special Collections

Announcement | Allison Levy & House of Secrets International Book Tour

Allison Levy, the Library’s Digital Scholarship Editor and Visiting Scholar in Italian Studies at Brown, is the author of a new book, House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo (Bloomsbury, 2019), currently being promoted through the U.S. and abroad. The book has been well received by critics and readers. Historian Ingrid Rowland Announcement | Allison Levy & House of Secrets International Book Tour

Event | Dr. Lindsey Jones: A database project on the education and incarceration of black girls in Jim Crow Virginia

On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 4 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Dr. Lindsey Jones will give a talk about the database she is creating about the education and incarceration of black girls in Virginia during Jim Crow. This event is free and open to the public. A Q&A and Event | Dr. Lindsey Jones: A database project on the education and incarceration of black girls in Jim Crow Virginia