To celebrate Library Preservation Week, the Brown University Library is hosting a talk about and viewing of textiles from the archives of Rush Hawkins and Annmary Brown. Please join us in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, from 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. The Preservation Department staff will discuss the process for housing and preserving … Preservation Week Talk | Preserving a Textile Archive
The Brown University Library is pleased to announce the winner of the 2017 Undergraduate Prize for Excellence in Library Research: Vaughn Campbell ’18, an International Relations Concentrator. Vaughn submitted a paper entitled, “Brown in China: Brown’s Role in the American Missionary Project of the Early Twentieth Century,” written in the spring of 2016 for Naoko … Winner of the 2017 Undergraduate Prize for Excellence in Library Research
The Library welcomes students back to session. We hope you had a restful spring break. Here are a few updates from the Library: Explore the Library Conservator’s latest projects in the March 2017 installment of the JHL Conservation Bulletin. The Image Collections in the Brown Library looks at “Portraits of Women” for Women’s History Month. Have … Updates from Around the Library | March 2017
From April 3 – 30, 2017, the image, Preparing John Bull for General Congress (1813), will be on display in the second floor landing case of the John Hay Library. Shown above, the Napoleonic caricature depicts John Bull backed against a tree, which is being hacked to pieces by malevolent pygmies representing Britain’s many pressing domestic and foreign … Exhibit | Preparing John Bull for General Congress
The Bamboula! Symposium has been rescheduled for Tuesday, April 11 from 2 – 3:30 p.m. in Petteruti Lounge, second floor, Robert Campus Center/Faunce House. A reception will follow in the lobby of the John Hay Library. The exhibit, Bamboula! Black Music Before the Blues, was conceived and curated by Brown graduate, pianist John Davis ’79. It … Symposium | Bamboula! Black Music Before the Blues with John Davis ’79
On Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 12 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab of the Rockefeller Library, writer and historian Abby Smith Rumsey will discuss “Digital Memory: What Can We Afford to Lose?” A reception will follow the talk. This event is free and open to the public. Digital Memory: What Can We Afford to Lose? … Event | Abby Smith Rumsey: “Digital Memory: What Can We Afford to Lose?”
The John Hay Library has two new acquisitions on display in the second floor landing case: manuscript trial notes and a report related to the State vs Francis Leach, 1833. They will be on display until April 3, 2017. In February 1833, forty-eight-year-old Frances (nicknamed “Fanny”) Leach of Providence was called on to attend Sally Burdick, … Exhibit | Court Documents from the State vs Frances Leach, 1833
On Friday, March 17, 2017 at noon in the Digital Scholarship Lab of the Rockefeller Library, Roger Brooks, President and CEO of Facing History and Ourselves, will give a talk as part of the Library’s lecture series, The Holocaust: History and Aftermath. This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow … Event | The Holocaust and Human Behavior: Facing History to Build the Future with Roger Brooks
The Brown University Library announces a $500 first prize and a $250 second prize for the creation of the most innovative and interesting 3D color-printed model. The theme for this year’s prize is the Brown University campus. Contestants must be currently enrolled Brown graduate or undergraduate students. For more information and complete list of rules, … 2017 Library Innovation Prize
The Brown University Library is off and running in 2017. Here are a few updates: Check out all the workshops being offered by the Library: http://library.brown.edu/workshops/. The Image Collections in the Brown Library blog takes a look at Russia. The Brown Book Truck is tweeting about the people and spaces of the Brown University Library … Updates from Around the Library | February 2017
