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Exhibit | Dis/Assemble: Making Meaning from the Minassian Collection

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Dis/Assemble Dis/Assemble is a collaborative effort by graduate students from across ten different humanities disciplines to construct narratives around a continuously moving archive: the Minassian Collection of Persian, Mughal, and Indian Paintings and Calligraphies at Brown University. This collection evokes questions of assemblage and disassemblage, from sifting the extraordinary from the ordinary to practices of … Exhibit | Dis/Assemble: Making Meaning from the Minassian Collection

Exhibit | Intercalary Event 2020

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Works by Katie Bullock, Faculty, Glass, Rhode Island School of DesignJocelyne Prince, Faculty, Glass, Rhode Island School of Design Sean Salstrom, Graduate Study, Glass, Rhode Island School of Design Artists approach research differently than scientists. The freedom through which artists pursue research allows their inquiries to breed multivalent results, often seemingly unconnected results which can … Exhibit | Intercalary Event 2020

Announcement | Digitization of Historic Campus Speeches with CLIR Grant

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Speeches by Civil Rights leaders and other renowned public intellectuals will be preserved and made available for scholarship. Providence, R.I. [Brown University] The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has awarded the Brown University Library $23,215 from its Recordings at Risk program. One of 13 projects selected out of 34 to receive grants from … Announcement | Digitization of Historic Campus Speeches with CLIR Grant

Exhibit | Thanksgiving-Day, November 24, 1864, United We Stand

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Created by famous political cartoonist Thomas Nast, these eight vignettes depict a “state of the Union” featuring President Abraham Lincoln during his reelection year. Each rendering touches on a significant factor during the Civil War, which was in its fourth year and with no clear victor at the time. The double-page image, published in Harper’s … Exhibit | Thanksgiving-Day, November 24, 1864, United We Stand

Announcement | Wall Street Journal Access

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Brown University Library and The Wall Street Journal  Brown University Library and The Wall Street Journal have partnered to provide school-sponsored WSJ memberships to all Brown University students, faculty, and staff. Through the partnership, readers have complete and personalized digital access to The Wall Street Journal and the WSJ app. How to activate your complimentary … Announcement | Wall Street Journal Access

Event | Dr. Lindsey Jones: A database project on the education and incarceration of black girls in Jim Crow Virginia

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On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 4 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Dr. Lindsey Jones will give a talk about the database she is creating about the education and incarceration of black girls in Virginia during Jim Crow. This event is free and open to the public. A Q&A and … Event | Dr. Lindsey Jones: A database project on the education and incarceration of black girls in Jim Crow Virginia

A Student’s Journey through Special Collections and the Creation of “Fields of Hay”

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A student-driven project led by undergraduate Shira Buchsbaum ’19, the recently launched website Fields of Hay offers students a guide for making use of the John Hay Library and Brown’s special collections resources. Written by Shira Buchsbaum ’19 Mary Elizabeth Sharpe and My First Foray into Special Collections My journey to the John Hay Library … A Student’s Journey through Special Collections and the Creation of “Fields of Hay”

Announcement | New Database: Political Extremism and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century

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The Brown University Library has acquired access to the database, Political Extremism and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century, a compilation of rare and unique archival collections covering a wide range of fringe political movements from the 1900s – 2010s. This archive is one of the first digital archives covering such a broad assortment of both far-right and … Announcement | New Database: Political Extremism and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century

Planned maintenance and service interruption: multiple library systems

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The library has scheduled an update and associated maintenance for the library catalog software on Tuesday, March 26 beginning at 10 am. This will require approximately eight hours of downtime for the library catalog and services tied to the software API. We chose this date to reduce the number of faculty, staff, and students affected … Planned maintenance and service interruption: multiple library systems