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Gathering and Preparing Your Data with Minimal Computing Workshops

Minimal Computing is a digital humanities practice of creating digital scholarship with the fewest resources possible that will still meet the goals of the project. The Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) is proud to offer a workshop series for fall 2025 around this topic in order to help researchers understand minimal computing, how to gather Gathering and Preparing Your Data with Minimal Computing Workshops

Fashioning Insurrection Exhibit and Opening

Fashioning Insurrection: From Imperial Resistance to American Orientalisms Exhibit Part of the Islamic-American Exchanges Initiative between the Brown University Library and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the exhibit, “Fashioning Insurrection: From Imperial Resistance to American Orientalisms,” will be on view in the Harriette Hemmasi Exhibition Gallery at the John Hay Library during the 2025-26 Fashioning Insurrection Exhibit and Opening

Summer With Your PVD Libraries

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

Library as a Third Space | Commencement Forum 2025

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

Pizza Please!

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!

Foundations and Futures of Digital Scholarship

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

Exploring the Mass Incarceration Lab Archive: Lunchtime Conversation & Student Presentations

“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