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Journal Search Not Working for Some Journals

The Journal Search is currently not working for all journals. The problem has been reported to the vendor and will be fixed as quickly as possible. A notice will be posted when it has been repaired. We apologize for any inconvenience.

UPDATE 5/1: LexisNexis is Working!!

4/26/2017:LexisNexis is currently unavailable from off-campus. On-campus, you need to remove the phrase revproxy.brown.edu from your URL after you login to be able to search effectively in LexisNexis. The publisher and CIS have been notified and a notice will be posted here when the service is back up and working properly. We apologize for the UPDATE 5/1: LexisNexis is Working!!

JHL Conservation Bulletin | March 2017

JHL Conservation Bulletin A quarterly installment highlighting Library Conservation in the Brown University community, conservation news around the internet, and ways for you to connect with conservation. Book and paper conservation Bridging technologies of the book has come to mean something more to binders and conservators than tracing the archaeology of medieval binding structures. More JHL Conservation Bulletin | March 2017

Events | DEFYING THE NAZIS: THE SHARPS’ WAR – Discussions with Artemis Joukowsky

Spend two evenings with author Artemis Joukowsky III P’14, P’16, who tells the incredible story of his grandparents, Martha Ingham Dickie (Brown 1926) and Rev. Waitstill Hastings Sharp in his new book, Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War (Beacon Press, 2016), also a film by Ken Burns of the same name. On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 Events | DEFYING THE NAZIS: THE SHARPS’ WAR – Discussions with Artemis Joukowsky

Exhibit | WWII Japanese Incarceration Swing Bands

WWII Japanese Incarceration Swing Bands, a new exhibit in Orwig Music Library curated by Ethnomusicology PhD student Julian Saporiti, shines a light on the 75th Anniversary of the Japanese American Incarceration. On February 19th, 1942, President Roosevelt bowed to racist, anti-Japanese hysteria and signed Executive Order 9066 which removed 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom were Exhibit | WWII Japanese Incarceration Swing Bands

Event | In the Mountains of Madness: A Reading with Author W. Scott Poole

On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 5:30 p.m. in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library, W. Scott Poole will give a reading from his new book, In the Mountains of Madness: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of H. P. Lovecraft. A discussion will follow the reading. This event is free and open to the public. The book will be Event | In the Mountains of Madness: A Reading with Author W. Scott Poole