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Announcement | Cody Ross Named Senior Library Specialist – Digital Records

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The Brown University Library is pleased to announce the appointment of Cody Ross to the position of Senior Library Specialist – Digital Records, effective January 2, 2019. Prior to moving into this position in Special Collections, Cody worked in Circulation as Senior Library Specialist – Gateway Services. Cody will be performing digital preservation tasks with born-digital … Announcement | Cody Ross Named Senior Library Specialist – Digital Records

Exhibit | Works from “A Global History of Art & Architecture”

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A course with Professors Sheila Bonde and Lindsay Caplan Examine models and artwork created by students in Sheila Bonde’s and Lindsay Caplan’s lecture course, “A Global History of Art and Architecture”, which presents art, architecture, and material culture from cave paintings to installation art.  The works exemplify forms studied in the class. Dates: December 20, … Exhibit | Works from “A Global History of Art & Architecture”

Exhibit | Entwined: Botany, Art and the Lost Cat Swamp Habitat

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The exhibit showcases the rich history of art and science in Providence and provokes you to consider the consequences of environmental change on local biodiversity.  Premiering original watercolors of plants by Edward Peckham together with matching specimens from the Brown University Herbarium, collected by William Bailey and others, explore the lost Cat Swamp habitat of the Wayland … Exhibit | Entwined: Botany, Art and the Lost Cat Swamp Habitat

Announcement | New Project Selected for Brown’s Digital Publications Initiative

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The Office of the Dean of the Faculty and the University Library, together with the Digital Publications Advisory Board, are pleased to announce the selection of the next long-form scholarly work to be developed under Brown’s Digital Publications Initiative. Islamic Pasts and Futures: Horizons of Time, by Shahzad Bashir, Director of Middle East Studies, Aga … Announcement | New Project Selected for Brown’s Digital Publications Initiative

Exhibit | Transcultural by Design: Iranian Ceramics

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Transcultural by Design: Iranian Ceramics from the Minassian Collection Curated by Rhodes Scholar Rhea Stark ‘18.5. From where exactly do the Islamic arts originate is the question at the center of this exhibition. While the answer perhaps seems intuitive— the Islamic Middle East—the reality is far more complex. The Islamic arts have from their beginnings existed … Exhibit | Transcultural by Design: Iranian Ceramics

Exhibit | Blooming in the Noise of the Whirlwind & Puerto Rico en mi corazón

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Blooming in the Noise of the Whirlwind & Puerto Rico en mi corazón on view at John Hay Library, exhibition gallery. Blooming in the Noise of the Whirlwind This exhibition focuses on a small selection of the many extraordinary women poets represented in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays. From women writing in the colonial period, … Exhibit | Blooming in the Noise of the Whirlwind & Puerto Rico en mi corazón

Exhibit | Prayer (1934) by Princess Red Wing of Seven Crescents

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Prayer, World Day of Prayer for Peace, February 16, 1934 Princess Red Wing of Seven Crescents Brown University Library, Special Collections Exhibit The item on display is a written prayer delivered at an observance of the World Day of Prayer at the Westminster Church, Yonkers, New York, by Princess Red Wing of Seven Crescents, a Narragansett and Pokanoket Wampanoag … Exhibit | Prayer (1934) by Princess Red Wing of Seven Crescents

Exhibit | Chew on This! Early Dental History & Library Collections

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Chew on This! Early Dental History and Library Collections Whether functional or cosmetic, concern for and care of teeth have long been a part of the human condition. Written accounts of dental practices and practitioners can be found in numerous cultures around the globe as early as 5000 BC, and the first identified book on … Exhibit | Chew on This! Early Dental History & Library Collections

Exhibit | Victory Won Pro-Life Bumper Stickers (1991–5)

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Explore bumper stickers from the Hall-Hoag Collection produced by Victory Won from 1991-5, in support of the anti-abortion/pro-life/right-to-life movement. The movement in general terms seeks to prevent legal abortion and recriminalize the procedure, which was legalized, based on a woman’s right to privacy, in the 1973 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. … Exhibit | Victory Won Pro-Life Bumper Stickers (1991–5)