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!
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.
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
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — This month the World Digital Library (WDL), an open access website sponsored by UNESCO and the Library of Congress featuring unique cultural materials and national treasures from libraries and archives around the world, has integrated 40 additional images from the Brown University Library. Expanding the WDL’s coverage of Africa, Asia, and … Brown Provides New Content for World Digital Library
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – At 5:30pm on Wednesday, March 21, 2012, Brown/Ziggurat Press will host a reading and book signing in the John Hay Library for BREATHTAKEN, a long poem by CD Wright with visual accompaniments by Walter Feldman. Following the reading, there will be a reception in the foyer during which visitors can … BREATHTAKEN: A Reading and Book Signing
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – TEI Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service (TAPAS), a digital humanities collaboration between the libraries of Brown University and Wheaton College, has been awarded a $250,000 National Leadership Grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), to begin on December 1, 2011 and run for three years. The goal … Digital Humanities Project Wins IMLS National Leadership Grant
The revised Web edition of the History and Guide to Special Collections is now available. In this guide, the author, Sam Streit, presents highlights of the John Hay Library collections from the University’s inception to the present. This Web publication which is beautifully illustrated will also be available in print later on this fall to … History & Guide to Special Collections
The Brown University Library is pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 Hildene-Brown Lincoln Essay Competition: FIRST PRIZE Sherry Romanzi, Barrington (Gordon School) SECOND PRIZE Audrey Chisholm, Providence (Gordon School) THIRD PRIZE (TIE) Gianna Jasinski, Greenville (LaSalle Academy) THIRD PRIZE (TIE) Sabrina Fowler, Millville, Massachusetts (LaSalle Academy) HONORABLE MENTION: Marydjina Barionnette, Providence (Nathanael Greene … Winners in the 2010 Hildene-Brown Lincoln Essay Competition
Celebrating Research: A Guide to Rare and Special Collections from the Membership of the Association of Research Libraries was recently released to coincide with the organization’s 75th anniversary. The publication is co-edited by Samuel Streit, Brown University’s Director for Special Collections, who also contributed an overview of the University’s Special Collections. In addition to Streit’s … Brown Librarians help produce Association for Research Libraries publication
[This commentary by Harriette Hemmasi, Joukowsky Family University Librarian, appeared in the March 25 issue of the Providence Journal.] RECENTLY, PROMINENT scholars and librarians from some of America’s largest research institutions have lamented that the digitization of relics and manuscripts from the past represents a mounting threat to our common cultural heritage. They worry that … Harriette Hemmasi: Saving libraries from digital destruction
