The Library migrated its web server on Monday, 20 November 2017. We hope you didn’t notice, but if you find anything broken on our website, or anything that just isn’t working the way you expect it should, please let us know.
A quarterly installment highlighting Library Conservation in the Brown University community, conservation news around the internet, and ways for you to connect with conservation. Book and paper conservation Now that you have met him and seen his work: Gary Frost and the Sewn Boards Binding. “The classical ‘before and after’ contrast reveals the character of … JHL Conservation Bulletin | June 2017
JHL Conservation Bulletin A quarterly installment highlighting Library Conservation in the Brown University community, conservation news around the internet, and ways for you to connect with conservation. Book and paper conservation Bridging technologies of the book has come to mean something more to binders and conservators than tracing the archaeology of medieval binding structures. More … JHL Conservation Bulletin | March 2017
A quarterly installment highlighting Library Conservation in the Brown University community, conservation news around the internet, and ways for you to connect with conservation. Book and paper conservation [at Brown] Forging the future of special collections. It’s a thriller, a romance, a dystopian journey, or anything else you want it to be. Read my review … JHL Conservation Bulletin | December 2016
The Library welcomes Mary Murphy, the new Pembroke Center Archivist. For several years Mary was a Manuscripts Archivist and, more recently, the Administrative Librarian at Harvard University’s Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Her prior professional experience includes working at the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the Georgia Historical Society. Mary’s undergraduate … The Library Welcomes Mary Murphy
Hector Correa joined the Library in June as the Senior Library Applications Developer. Prior to Brown, Hector was at Penn State working on the ScholarSphere project, a Ruby on Rails application built on top of the Hydra framework, which uses Fedora for document storage and Blacklight/Solr to power the search feature. From 2010-2014 he was a senior developer at … The Library Welcomes Hector Correa
As the new semester continues, here are a few updates from the Library: The Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection Blog talks about the recent acquisition of a small water-color on paper. Please check out the JHL Conservation Bulletin. It’s a quarterly installment highlighting library conservation in the Brown University community. The Image Collections Blog’s most recent post is on the Tudors (this … Updates from Around the Library | October 2016
A quarterly installment highlighting Library Conservation in the Brown University community, conservation news around the internet, and ways for you to connect with conservation. Book and paper conservation [at Brown] Paul Banks‘ 10 Laws of Conservation. 1. No one can have access to a document that no longer exists. 2. Multiplication and dispersal increase chances … JHL Conservation Bulletin | September 2016
The Special Collections Reading Room of the John Hay Library will close at 3pm on Wednesday June 22nd. Library services will resume at 10am on Thursday June 23rd.
A quarterly installment highlighting Library Conservation in the Brown University community, conservation news around the internet, and ways for you to connect with conservation. Book and paper conservation at Brown Located in the John Hay Library, Brown University Library’s conservation lab mixes historical tools such as 19th century cast iron book presses and board shears … JHL Conservation Bulletin | June 2016
