On this 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings on the Normandy coast, it is worth pausing to reflect on the sacrifice of the soldiers who died on Omaha and Utah Beaches along with their allied comrades on Gold, Juno and Sword Beaches. Wednesday, May 1, 2013 was a bright sunny day as the tour bus … The Killing Field that was Omaha Beach
The computer cluster and reference room on the first floor of the Rockefeller Library will be closing for renovation on Thusday, June 5, 2014. The area will be closed for the entire summer. The reference collection from this room has moved to Level 2 and is located on ranges 47-51.
Here are a few recent highlights from some of the Library’s various blogs: Brown Curio has a post celebrating the SciLi Duck. The Rock50 website has added its latest batch of memories. Make sure to submit your own Rock memory. The Hall-Hoag Collection Blog has an interesting post about unidentified material. Image Collections in the Brown Library unfortunately is only available to … Updates From Around the Library (May 2014)
The Transformations exhibit examines the unique relationship between Brown University and Tougaloo College (Mississippi) over its fifty year history. Photographs and printed materials offer a glimpse of the early years of the partnership as well as the depth of personal change experienced by participants in the exchange. From Civil Rights to the present, Tougaloo has provided the Brown community with an important … Transformations | Fifty Years of the Brown University–Tougaloo College Partnership
The Music in the Ocean State exhibit was created to highlight Rhode Island music & musicians, in honor of the New England Chapter of the Music Library Association’s spring meeting (hosted by the Orwig Music Library on March 28, 2014). This exhibit will be up until the end of the summer. The media, books, and music on … Music in the Ocean State Exhibit
Pizza Night is finally here. Every year the Library hosts two nights of pizza. The first (Tuesday) night will be in the Sciences Library. The next night there will be pizza in the Rock. Students that enjoy studying in a library as well as eating pizza are encouraged to attend. Pizza Night Schedule Tuesday, May 6 | 9 p.m. … Library Pizza Nights
April 27, 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the end of apartheid in South Africa. Apartheid was a system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced through legislation from 1948 through 1994. Apartheid became an international issue and a prominent topic for human rights activists around the world and in South Africa. Apartheid famously came … South Africa Catalyst Project
On May 1st, at 2:30 p.m., in the Rock Conference Room, Jill Walker Rettberg will present, “Technologies of the Self: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves” In this presentation, Jill Walker Rettberg will look at technologically mediated self-representations in a variety of genres, from selfies, Facebook profiles, Tumblrs, … Technologies of the Self | Jill Walker Rettberg | May 1
On May 1st, at 12 p.m. (noon), in the Rock Conference Room of the Rockefeller Library, Scott Rettberg (University of Bergen) will present, “An Emerging Canon? Mapping a Field through Database Visualization.” The Electronic Literature Knowledge Base is a cross-referenced, scholarly database containing entries about creative works of and critical writing on electronic literature, as … An Emerging Canon? | Scott Rettberg Talk | May 1st
This week (April 13–19) is National Library Week. The theme this year is “Lives Change @ Your Library.” First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA). Libraries across the country celebrate each April. It is an opportunity for the contributions of our nation’s libraries and … Lives Change @ Your Library | National Library Week
