Lauded contemporary Latinx playwright’s papers will enrich the Hay’s holdings by artists of color in its distinctive Performance & Entertainment collecting area The John Hay Library has acquired the papers of award-winning Puerto Rican-American playwright and screenwriter José Rivera. Serving as a foundational collection within the Hay’s Performance & Entertainment collecting direction, this trove of … John Hay Library Acquires José Rivera Papers
From April 8 – May 6, 2022, the Sorensen Family Reading Room on the first floor April 8 – May 6, 2022Sorensen Family Reading Room On two shelves at the entrance to the Sorensen Family Reading Room on the first floor of the Rock, books held at the Brown University Library that have been banned … The Power of Words: Banning Books in the United States
The John Carter Brown Library and the Brown University Library are pleased to announce Kimberly Toney as the inaugural Coordinating Curator for Native American and Indigenous Collections. Kim’s first day will be July 18, 2022. The Coordinating Curator for Native American and Indigenous Collections will support the libraries in their focus on Native American and … Kimberly Toney Inaugural Coordinating Curator for Native American and Indigenous Collections
The Brown University Library is pleased to share an open invitation to view a presentation by Peter Harrington, Curator, Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, to the Continental Commandery of the Naval Order of the United States on Thursday March 24 at 7 p.m. EST. The talk will be broadcast live on the Continental Commandery’s YouTube channel. Discover more information about this … WWII Art Collection Talk by Peter Harrington
Archive of legendary Indigenous theater furthers distinction and depth of Brown’s holdings in multiple interdisciplinary areas of study Providence, R.I. [Brown University] In 1976, when Muriel Miguel, her two sisters, and a diverse group of women founded Spiderwoman Theater in Brooklyn, NY, their aim was to interrogate and challenge anti-feminist narratives of the 1970s through … John Hay Library Acquires Archive of Spiderwoman Theater
The Department of Collections Care brings under one functional group the intertwined areas of conservation, preservation, shelving, offsite storage, and environmental control for Library collections. The new department governs these measures for collections housed in Library facilities on campus as well as the Library Annex located nearby in Cranston, RI. This Library-wide approach to the … Library Establishes Department of Collections Care
Cultural sensitivity and organizational healing will be integral facets of unique partnership program to foster leaders at HBCU libraries and Brown University Providence, R.I. [Brown University] The HBCU Library Alliance and Brown University Library have received a $100,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program to … The HBCU Library Alliance and Brown Library receive IMLS grant for Leadership Development Program
Welcome back to your Brown University Library! Health and Safety Operations are founded on the most up-to-date, reliable safety protocols to ensure a healthy environment for our patrons and staff. Please follow all Healthy Brown steps to keep yourself and our community well. If you aren’t feeling well, please make use of the Library’s robust … Announcement | Fall 2021 Library Operations
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
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
