By Kurt Walters 04/10/08 Caitlin McKenna ’09 and Sara Damiano ’08 were announced as the winners of the University Library’s second annual Undergraduate Research Awards for “extensive, creative use” of library resources, according to an April 4 press release. Ron Fark, leader of Gateway Services and facilitator of the selection committee, said this year’s contest … Brown Daily Herald: Two students’ research pays off
In partnership with the Office of the Dean of the College, the Brown University Library is pleased to announce that Caitlin McKenna and Sara Damiano are the recipients of the second annual Undergraduate Research Awards. This $750 prize recognizes excellence in undergraduate research projects that make creative and extensive use of the Brown University Library’s … Library’s Undergraduate Research Award Winners Announced
The Brown University Library has received a grant of $228,454 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a statewide database, entitled the Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online (RIAMCO). Through the application of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids, RIAMCO will collocate more than 300 dispersed but overlapping collections about the history … Brown University Library awarded NEH grant to create RI Archival and Manuscript Web Resource
By Kyla Wilkes 02/28/08 Students and faculty requiring Internet access for their studying and research can now venture beyond the first three floors of the Sciences Library. All 14 floors of the concrete library have been equipped with wireless Internet. The SciLi proved particularly challenging for wireless Internet implementation, said Mark Shelton, leader of Media … Brown Daily Herald: WiFi Comes to the SciLi
By Claire Cushman 02/20/08 Contract magazine, a national interior design publication, has awarded the Friedman Study Center a top design award in the education category. The study center, which opened in January 2007, has already received gold medals for “Commercial Interior Design” and “Commercial Construction/Renovation” in the November 2007 issue of Rhode Island Monthly Magazine. … Brown Daily Herald: Friedman Center receives design award
By Colin Chazen 02/15/08 Comprising over 100 volumes and covering every country that issues stamps as postage, the John Hay Library’s George S. Champlin Memorial Stamp Collection is one of the world’s largest collections of international postage – and it’s about to get even bigger. The University received two grants from the Champlin Foundations last … Brown Daily Herald: Grant to broaden Hay’s global stamp collection
By Jing Yi Hon 02/15/08 Alums who miss the familiar smell of dusty old books from the Rockefeller Library have cause for celebration – University library cards are now available to alums at a one-time cost of $15. The service came into effect on Jan. 1 and will offer borrowing privileges free of charge to … Brown Daily Herald: Alums can now borrow books for $15
The Susan P. and Richard A. Friedman Study Center has been awarded “Top Design 2007 in Education” by Contract Magazine. Calling it “the vibrant heart of campus,” the magazine lauded Friedman’s mixture of spaces for study and socializing and eclectic design. Panelists heaped praise on the work by New York-based Architecture Research Office commenting on … Friedman Center awarded “Top Design” by Contract Magazine
The Brown University Library and the Department of Italian Studies are pleased to announce that the launch of Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, a web-based archive for the study of one the protagonists of Italian reunification and 19th century Europe. The centerpiece of this one-of-a-kind resource is a digitized version of the Garibaldi Panorama, one of … Historic Garibaldi Panorama ready for its close-up! -Web resource launches
By: Cameron Lee Posted: 2/4/08 A first edition copy of “The Great Gatsby” inscribed with a note from F. Scott Fitzgerald to T.S. Eliot was one of three rare books donated to the John Hay Library by Daniel Siegel ’57 in December. In addition to “Gatsby,” Siegel donated a copy of the first English edition … Brown Daily Herald: ‘Borne back ceaselessly into the past’
