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Event | Pizza Nights

They’re baaaaaack…. Pizza Nights! Every semester the Library hosts two nights of pizza to fortify your studying. The first (Wednesday) night will be in the Sciences Library. The next night (Thursday) there will be pizza in the Rock. Students that enjoy studying in a library as well as eating pizza are encouraged to attend. Schedule Wednesday, December 9  |  9 p.m.  | Pizza Night Event | Pizza Nights

Exhibit | Christmas Seals

The Brown University Library is celebrating the holiday season with an exhibit of Christmas Seals, installed in three cases in the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection Gallery at the John Hay Library. The exhibit will be on display through January 6, 2015. The seals shown above are the Christmas Seals from 2006, 2007, and 2008. They are Exhibit | Christmas Seals

Extended Hours through Exams

The Library is extending its hours of operation through exam period to accommodate student study needs. The Rock:  Opens 8 a.m. on Monday, December 7 Open 24 hours a day until closing at 9 p.m. on Monday, December 21 Friedman Study Center in the SciLi:  Opens 8 a.m. on Sunday, December 6 Open 24 hours a day until Extended Hours through Exams

Construction at the Rock | Normal Operations, New Café Location

The Rock is undergoing several projects to update key spaces and improve the Library’s overall functionality and safety. All core services and operations will proceed as normal during all phases of the work. Library hours will remain the same and can be viewed here. As most of the exterior work on the building is complete, activity Construction at the Rock | Normal Operations, New Café Location

Event | Publishers Address the Academic Book of the Future

Brown University is pleased to participate in an international, multi-centered conversation regarding the future of the academic monograph to be held during Academic Book Week, November 9-16, 2015. The panel discussion, entitled “The Academic Book of the Future,” will take place in the Pembroke Hall third floor event space (PH305) on Monday, November 16, 2015 from Event | Publishers Address the Academic Book of the Future

Event | “What If We Design a Digital Edition and Invite Everyone?: Infinite Ulysses, Participatory Literature, and the Public Digital Humanities” with Amanda Visconti

The Library and the Cogut Center for the Humanities are pleased to welcome Amanda Visconti, Digital Humanities Specialist and Assistant Professor in the Libraries at Purdue University, who will present a talk entitled, “What If We Design a Digital Edition and Invite Everyone?: Infinite Ulysses, Participatory Literature, and the Public Digital Humanities,” at 10 a.m. on Thursday, November Event | “What If We Design a Digital Edition and Invite Everyone?: Infinite Ulysses, Participatory Literature, and the Public Digital Humanities” with Amanda Visconti

Event | The Spatial History Project at Stanford University with Erik Steiner

The Brown University Library is proud to be a co-sponsor of the Spacial Humanities Lecture Series, along with Spacial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4) and the M. B. Mandeville Lectureship Fund. On Friday, November 13, 2015 at 12 p.m. in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab in the Rockefeller Library, Erik Steiner will give a talk about Event | The Spatial History Project at Stanford University with Erik Steiner

Opportunity | Undergraduate Prize for Excellence in Library Research

Are you an undergraduate who is working on an interesting research project? Consider submitting it to this prize contest. In partnership with the Office of the Dean of the College, the Brown University Library sponsors the annual Undergraduate Research Prize. The purpose of the prize is to recognize excellence in undergraduate research projects that make Opportunity | Undergraduate Prize for Excellence in Library Research

Event | Carberry Day, Carberry Talk, Carberry Dinner, Carberry Cookies, Carberry Everything!

Each Friday the 13th and February 29th, Professor Josiah S. Carberry celebrates his birthday, and the Brown University Library celebrates with him. On Friday, November 13 at 4 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Professor Peter H. Schultz will talk about the geo-impact of Carberry on his own career in his talk, Event | Carberry Day, Carberry Talk, Carberry Dinner, Carberry Cookies, Carberry Everything!

Exhibit | “Trash of the Veriest Sort”: Challenges to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain published Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the United States in 1885 to mostly — but not entirely — favorable reviews. While the nature of the criticism has changed, there has always been controversy surrounding the book. This exhibit offers a look at how that criticism has changed from publication through the present. Dates: October Exhibit | “Trash of the Veriest Sort”: Challenges to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn