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Center for Digital Scholarship Launches New Website

The Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) recently launched its newly designed website. Please take a moment and check it out. The Center for Digital Scholarship, a cross-departmental group in the Brown University Library supports digital scholarship for the Brown community and beyond by supporting scholarly and academic activities that are conducted or enhanced through Center for Digital Scholarship Launches New Website

Brown University Library Celebrates Lovecraft with an Exhibit and New Research Fellowship!

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] —Brown University Library, home to the largest collection of H. P. Lovecraft materials in the world, is pleased to co-sponsor a two-part exhibit this summer in partnership with the Providence Athenaeum, and to announce a new annual fellowship for research relating to H. P. Lovecraft, his associates, and literary heirs. “The Shadow Brown University Library Celebrates Lovecraft with an Exhibit and New Research Fellowship!

Brown University Library Opens The Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab!

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — This October, the Brown University Library celebrates the opening of The Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab in the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library. The Lab is made possible thanks to the generosity of Mr. Patrick Ma, P’14, who is based in Hong Kong, China, Brown Trustee Cathy Halstead, and an anonymous Brown University Library Opens The Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab!

New Brochure Listing Brown University Library Events and Exhibits

The Brown University Library is pleased to share a new brochure listing fall 2012 events and exhibits which are free and open to the public. A digital version is available here. Hard copies are available at Library locations. More information about these and other programs will continue to be made available in the announcements section New Brochure Listing Brown University Library Events and Exhibits

Website for Digital Art & Humanities Lecture Series, Now Live!

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] –The Brown University Library is launching a new website which hosts abstracts and videos from the 2011-2012 Digital Arts and Humanities Lecture Series.  The series was jointly sponsored by Brown University Library and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage. Over the course of the fall and spring Website for Digital Art & Humanities Lecture Series, Now Live!

Brown Receives Works of John Jay Chapman from Daniel Siegel ’57

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – Brown University has received a collection of works by John Jay Chapman (1862-1933), noted man of letters, dramatist, and political reformer, as a gift from longtime Library supporter, Daniel Siegel ’57.  Born in New York City, the son of Henry Grafton Chapman, one-time president of the New York Stock Exchange, and Brown Receives Works of John Jay Chapman from Daniel Siegel ’57

New Video by the Center for Digital Scholarship

The Center for Digital Scholarship at Brown University Library has produced a new, short informational video for centerNet, an international network of digital humanities centers. The Library congratulates Jean Bauer, our Digital Humanities Librarian, for being appointed centerNet’s new secretary.

“Dealing with Data” – New Library Publication Now Availaible

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] —  Brown University Library is pleased to announce the release of its newest publication, Dealing with Data. Dealing with Data features contributions by Library staff and Brown faculty including Harriette Hemmasi, Catherine Busselen, Ann Caldwell, Jean Bauer, Julia Flanders, Amanda Rinehart, John Cayley, Sue Alcock, and Jan S. Hesthaven. The authors discuss a “Dealing with Data” – New Library Publication Now Availaible