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Announcement | Anna Hernandez, Senior Library Specialist for Technical Services

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The Library is pleased to welcome Anna Hernandez! Anna holds the position of Senior Library Specialist for Technical Services. Her work will focus primarily on cataloging our print collections in a variety of languages. One of her first projects will be cataloging a recently purchased collection of science fiction and fantasy works. Anna has lived … Announcement | Anna Hernandez, Senior Library Specialist for Technical Services

Announcement | Sean Briody ’19, Library Student Employee, Receives Stillwell Prize

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In April 2019, Sean Briody ’19 took first place in the John Russell Bartlett Society Stillwell Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting for his distinguished collection of Brunoniana from the 19th and 20th centuries. His collection of Brown University materials is notable for the dense web of personal connections to Brown that are documented in each … Announcement | Sean Briody ’19, Library Student Employee, Receives Stillwell Prize

Announcement | Graduating Library Student Employees

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Congratulations to the 52 Library employees who walked through the Van Wickle Gates during Commencement 2019 to collect their degrees! Our many student workers–undergraduate and graduate–provide invaluable support to the Library’s operations. As one of the largest employers of students at Brown, we welcome many students to our team and enjoy getting to know and … Announcement | Graduating Library Student Employees

Event | American Sinologist Charles S. Gardner and the Chinese Collection at Brown with Dr. Li Wang

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On Friday, May 10, 2019 at 12 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Dr. Li Wang, Curator of East Asian Collection, will give a presentation, “American Sinologist Charles S. Gardner and Chinese Collection at Brown.” This talk is free and open to the public. Coffee and cookies will be available. The … Event | American Sinologist Charles S. Gardner and the Chinese Collection at Brown with Dr. Li Wang

Announcement | Amanda Strauss Named Associate University Librarian for Special Collections

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The Brown University Library is pleased to announce the appointment of Amanda Strauss as Associate University Librarian for Special Collections. As Associate University Librarian, Ms. Strauss will oversee the University’s outstanding collections of rare books, manuscripts, archives, and other unique and special materials. Reporting to and working in close partnership with Joseph Meisel, Joukowsky Family University Librarian, she will oversee … Announcement | Amanda Strauss Named Associate University Librarian for Special Collections

Announcement | Allison Levy & House of Secrets International Book Tour

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Allison Levy, the Library’s Digital Scholarship Editor and Visiting Scholar in Italian Studies at Brown, is the author of a new book, House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo (Bloomsbury, 2019), currently being promoted through the U.S. and abroad. The book has been well received by critics and readers. Historian Ingrid Rowland … Announcement | Allison Levy & House of Secrets International Book Tour

Announcement | Charles S. Gardner and Brown University Library Chinese Collection by Li Wang

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During the conferences of the Association for Asian Studies in Denver, CO, Dr. Li Wang, Curator of the East Asian Collection, delivered a presentation, “American Sinologist Charles S. Gardner and Chinese Rare Books in Brown University Library,” at the SCSL forum on March 22, 2019. Soon after, on April 3, one of his articles, “A … Announcement | Charles S. Gardner and Brown University Library Chinese Collection by Li Wang

Announcement | Lydia Curliss, Physical Sciences Librarian

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The Library is pleased to welcome Lydia Curliss as the new Physical Sciences Librarian. Lydia comes to us from Indiana University, where she worked as a copyright researcher for the IU Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative. While a graduate student, she worked in the IU First Nations Educational and Cultural Center and in the Libraries’ … Announcement | Lydia Curliss, Physical Sciences Librarian