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Building Your Digital Humanities Toolkit – Spring 2026

Digital Humanities is a vibrant and wide-ranging research domain, but at times it can be difficult to get started in it. The Center for Digital Scholarship at Brown University Library is delighted to offer our Spring 2026 workshop series, “Building Your Digital Humanities Toolkit,” to help students build their skills and theoretical knowledge in the Building Your Digital Humanities Toolkit – Spring 2026

DH Salons – Spring 2026

Please join the Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship this fall for the Digital Humanities (DH) Salons! 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 DH Salons – Spring 2026

John Hay’s China Policy: Student Research from Brown’s Special Collections

Join the Brown University Library for a presentation of original research by Brown students exploring the global impact of John Hay’s China Policy — and Brown University’s role in this history — drawing on rare special collections materials from Brown and beyond. Hybrid Event Wednesday, December 10, 2025, from 2:30 to 5 p.m. In person: John Hay’s China Policy: Student Research from Brown’s Special Collections

Pizza Pizza

Your Brown University Library is here for you during finals. You’ve told us what you want, what you really really want, and it’s free pizza. Join us on the following dates and times in three library locations for communal pizza scarfing. Pizza Schedule Help If what you really really want is help with finals, we Pizza Pizza

John Hay Library – Broadside Collections Closed 

Most of the broadside collections in the John Hay Library (including the Harris Broadsides, Rider Broadsides, Carriers’ Addresses, and general collection broadsides) will be closed to researchers December 1, 2025, to March 31, 2026.  The closure does not impact access to the Lincoln Broadsides. Many of the broadsides have been digitized and are available in John Hay Library – Broadside Collections Closed 

Faculty Can Request Library Delivery in BruKnow!

The Library is pleased to announce that Brown faculty members can now request delivery of physical library materials to a campus address from within BruKnow, the online library catalog. This new enhancement to library services will make it easier for busy faculty members to access the Library’s extensive circulating collection materials without taking time to Faculty Can Request Library Delivery in BruKnow!