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Announcement | Recipients of Undergraduate Prize for Excellence in Library Research 2020

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Each year, in partnership with the Office of the Dean of the College, the Brown University Library recognizes one or two undergraduate students for outstanding research projects that make creative and extensive use of the Library’s collections, including, but not limited to, print resources, databases, primary resources, and materials in all media. The project may … Announcement | Recipients of Undergraduate Prize for Excellence in Library Research 2020

A Message from the University Library to Graduate Programs and Students | Access to Scholarly Resources during Campus Closure

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Dear Department Chairs, Directors of Graduate Studies, and Graduate Students, At the Brown University Library, we are well aware that the COVID-19 public health crisis is having an impact on graduate students’ ability to study for qualifying exams and carry out thesis and dissertation research. At Brown, as is the case at universities across the … A Message from the University Library to Graduate Programs and Students | Access to Scholarly Resources during Campus Closure

Exhibit | Dis/Assemble: Making Meaning from the Minassian Collection

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Dis/Assemble Dis/Assemble is a collaborative effort by graduate students from across ten different humanities disciplines to construct narratives around a continuously moving archive: the Minassian Collection of Persian, Mughal, and Indian Paintings and Calligraphies at Brown University. This collection evokes questions of assemblage and disassemblage, from sifting the extraordinary from the ordinary to practices of … Exhibit | Dis/Assemble: Making Meaning from the Minassian Collection

Event | #LibraryLove 2020

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This Valentine’s Day – Friday, February 14 – let us know what you think is the greatest thing at the Library, enjoy cookies, write a love letter, explore poetry, and make a button from a special collections print. Available from 12 – 3 p.m. in these library locations: Rockefeller Library, Sorensen Family Reading Room John Hay … Event | #LibraryLove 2020

Exhibit | Intercalary Event 2020

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Works by Katie Bullock, Faculty, Glass, Rhode Island School of DesignJocelyne Prince, Faculty, Glass, Rhode Island School of Design Sean Salstrom, Graduate Study, Glass, Rhode Island School of Design Artists approach research differently than scientists. The freedom through which artists pursue research allows their inquiries to breed multivalent results, often seemingly unconnected results which can … Exhibit | Intercalary Event 2020

Events | Love Data Week 2020

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What is Love Data Week? Love Data Week is an international celebration of data, aiming to raise awareness and build a community to engage on topics related to research data management, sharing, preservation, reuse, and library-based research data services. #LoveData20 Join us and register for Brown’s Inaugural Love Data Week February 10 – 14, 2020! … Events | Love Data Week 2020

Announcement | Hortense J. Spillers Papers Open for Research

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The Pembroke Center’s Feminist Theory Archive and the John Hay Library are proud to announce that the Hortense J. Spillers papers are open for research. Spillers is an American literary critic, Black feminist scholar, and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in English at Vanderbilt University. Her research addresses literary criticism, race and gender; linguistics; the African diaspora; Black culture; and sexuality. She is … Announcement | Hortense J. Spillers Papers Open for Research