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Announcement | Brown Library Receives NEH Grant for Digital Publishing Institute

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National training program centered on diversity and inclusion aims to broaden the range of scholars producing born-digital publications and, by extension, the audience for digital humanities scholarship. Providence, R.I. [Brown University] Brown University Library has received a $169,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to create a training institute on digital publishing. … Announcement | Brown Library Receives NEH Grant for Digital Publishing Institute

Announcement | Brown Library publishes “Race &” in America digital book series

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Free and open publication documents and expands series exploring origins, history, and legacies of anti-Black racism in the U.S. Providence, R.I. [Brown University] Over the course of the 2020-21 academic year, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown, in partnership with the Office of the Provost, undertook a systematic … Announcement | Brown Library publishes “Race &” in America digital book series

Announcement | Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas

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The Library has been contributing to a community-centered database project led by Professor Linford Fisher that seeks to document the many instances of Indigenous enslavement in the Americas between 1492 through 1900. Formerly entitled, Database of Indigenous Slavery Archive (DISA), the project is now named, Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas. Since the … Announcement | Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas

Announcement | Free Web Hosting Service for Digital Scholarship

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Digital Scholarship at Brown The Library is offering a new web hosting service to support digital scholarship: Digital Scholarship at Brown. This service is available to Brown students, faculty, and staff who want to experiment with digital scholarly platforms, develop a research project, and/or share your work. Digital Scholarship at Brown complements Brown’s existing web … Announcement | Free Web Hosting Service for Digital Scholarship

Announcement | Four New Projects Selected for Brown’s Digital Publications Initiative

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The University Library and the Dean of the Faculty, together with the Digital Publications Advisory Board, are pleased to announce the selection of the next four long-form scholarly works to be developed as part of Brown’s Digital Publications Initiative. The Platinum Age of Gospel by Charrise Barron, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Music, surveys … Announcement | Four New Projects Selected for Brown’s Digital Publications Initiative

Announcement | New Publication on Chinese Rare Books in the Brown University Library

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Prestigious Chinese publisher, China Book Company, has published An Illustrated Catalogue of Ancient Chinese Books in the Brown University Library by Dr. Li Wang, the Library’s Curator of the East Asian Collection. The volume contains detailed bibliographic and research information on all Chinese rare books found in the Library published before the end of the … Announcement | New Publication on Chinese Rare Books in the Brown University Library

Announcement | Brown Library’s Digital Publications Initiative’s First Born-Digital Scholarly Monograph Published by University of Virginia Press

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The pathbreaking multimodal digital book — Furnace and Fugue — was developed with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Providence, R.I. [Brown University] Brown University’s Center for Digital Scholarship, based at the University Library, announces the publication of the first born-digital scholarly monograph under the Digital Publications Initiative, a collaboration between the Library and … Announcement | Brown Library’s Digital Publications Initiative’s First Born-Digital Scholarly Monograph Published by University of Virginia Press

Event | Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara

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On Friday, November 8, 2019 at 3 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Elaine Sullivan, Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz, will give a talk entitled, “Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara.” This event is free and open to the public. Constructing … Event | Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara

Announcement | Two New Projects Selected for Brown’s Digital Publications Initiative

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The University Library and the Dean of the Faculty, together with the Digital Publications Advisory Board, are pleased to announce the selection of the next two long-form scholarly works to be developed as part of Brown’s Digital Publications Initiative. At a Standstill, Moving: Gesture, Temporality and the Interval in Performance At a Standstill, Moving: Gesture, … Announcement | Two New Projects Selected for Brown’s Digital Publications Initiative