Summer With Your PVD Libraries is a partnership between the Brown University Library, Providence Public Library, and the Community Libraries of Providence. Look for Bruno, the bear, to find our events Download a bruno POSTER TO COLOR Thank you for joining our 2025 events! We hope to see you again next summer. 2025 Summer Program … Summer With Your PVD Libraries
Origin of Juneteenth Juneteenth, the oldest celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States, originated in Galveston, Texas in 1865. It marks the date the enslaved people of Texas were officially informed of their freedom — two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. General Order Number 3 … Juneteenth and the Racial Justice Resource Center
Library as a Third Space: A Collaboration with Providence High School Librarians and Brown University Date: Saturday, May 24, 2025Time: 2:30 p.m.Location: Willis Reading Room, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect St., ProvidenceZoom link to attend online: https://bit.ly/library-forum Video of the Forum The Fund for the Education of the Children of Providence Following Brown’s 2006 Slavery … Library as a Third Space | Commencement Forum 2025
Plan on visiting a library during finals? Let us fortify your efforts with pizza! Schedule Brought to you by your Brown University Library. Best of luck with finals!
For the past 30 years, Brown University Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship has served as an innovative hub for research and teaching in digital humanities (DH) and scholarly communication across disciplines. Join staff, faculty, and student stakeholders for a two-day symposium celebrating the center’s work in digital projects, training and critical DH pedagogy, and born-digital publications. … Foundations and Futures of Digital Scholarship
“History is not only in the past — it is being made as researchers look for stories to tell.” – Benzecry et al. 2020 Want to learn more about the Mass Incarceration Lab Archive and how you can use it in your own projects and research? Come explore the archives with Brown University Seniors Anna … Exploring the Mass Incarceration Lab Archive: Lunchtime Conversation & Student Presentations
The John Carter Brown Library (JCB) and John Hay Library on Brown University’s campus invite local Indigenous community members to a research night and open house at both libraries from 5 to 7 p.m. on May 1, 2025. Pre-selected primary and secondary source materials from the libraries’ collections will be available to visit, view and … Indigenous Communities Research Night and Open House
Over the past decade, curators, archivists, and librarians at the Brown University Library and the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women have been actively collecting, preserving, and making available special collections that shine a light on the complex experiences of transgender and gender diverse people and communities across the world. In the spirit … Trans Archive Salon
Please join us for the Digital Humanities (DH) Salon! The DH Salon series, hosted by the Center for Digital Scholarship, is a regular, informal presentation series bringing together digital humanities work across the Brown campus. Join us either in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab (Room 137) on the first floor of the Rockefeller Library (with lunch!) or on Zoom (https://brown.zoom.us/j/94514112608). … DH Salons – Spring 2025
Join Brown University, the University Library, and the John Carter Brown Library for two events launching Brown 2026, a two-year long, campus-wide initiative observing the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. Through Brown 2026, the University aims to demonstrate the important role of research and teaching universities in fostering open and democratic … Launch of Brown 2026 | Divided America Symposium
