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Preservation Week Talk | Preserving a Textile Archive

To celebrate Library Preservation Week, the Brown University Library is hosting a talk about and viewing of textiles from the archives of Rush Hawkins and Annmary Brown. Please join us in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, from 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.  The Preservation Department staff will discuss the process for housing and preserving Preservation Week Talk | Preserving a Textile Archive

Exhibit | A History of the Brown University Orchestra

A History of the Brown University Orchestra is now on display in the Orwig Music Library. The exhibit chronicles the development of orchestral involvement on Brown’s campus from 1919 onward.  Highlights include programs from performances with Leonard Bernstein, Itzhak Perlman, and Steve Reich, as well as the merger of the Brown Orchestra and Pembroke Orchestra, Exhibit | A History of the Brown University Orchestra

Exhibit | Tripping the Light Fantastic: Experimental Optics in the Victorian Era

In 1704, Isaac Newton published the first scientific work on light. Working carefully but not very cautiously, Newton began compiling the results of hundreds of experiments he performed in the quiet space of his own rooms at Cambridge over the course of four decades, from the 1660s forward. Many of these experiments involved Newton using Exhibit | Tripping the Light Fantastic: Experimental Optics in the Victorian Era

Brown in the Great War

A new digital resource that highlights materials from the University Archives and Special Collections is now available: “Brown in the Great War.” The website focuses on Brown community members who participated in, fought, and died in World War I, as well as the social landscape of Brown from 1914 to 1921. This eloquent resource was Brown in the Great War

October 1 is #AskAnArchivist Day

What does an archivist do?  Tweet your questions to @brownarchives on #AskAnArchivist day. On October 1 archivists across the United States will take to Twitter to answer your questions about all things archives. This day-long event, sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, gives you the opportunity to ask questions, get information, or simply to October 1 is #AskAnArchivist Day