The Brown University Library is proud to be a co-sponsor of the Spacial Humanities Lecture Series, along with Spacial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4) and the M. B. Mandeville Lectureship Fund. On Friday, October 23, 2015 at 12 p.m. in the Population Studies and Training Center within Mencoff Hall, Tim Cresswell will deliver the lecture, … Event | “Space, Place, and the Humanities: The Emergence of the GeoHumanities” with Tim Cresswell

As part of our celebration of International Open Access Week, the Brown University Library is pleased to welcome Nick Shockey, who will deliver a talk entitled, “Raising the Impact of Research and Education through Openness,” on Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 7 p.m. in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab. A question and answer session … Event | “Raising the Impact of Research and Education through Openness” with Nick Shockey

The Library and the Cogut Center for the Humanities are pleased to welcome Laura Mandell, Professor of English and Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture at Texas A&M University, who will present a talk entitled, “Whither the Scholarly Monograph,” at 3 p.m. on Friday, October 2, 2015 in the Digital Scholarship Lab on the … Event | “Whither the Scholarly Monograph” with Laura Mandell

  Christopher Geissler has been appointed the Director of the John Hay Library and Special Collections. Christopher will begin this new role effective September 21, 2015. Christopher has held two previous positions at Brown: first as Project Archivist in the University Archives and more recently as Librarian for American and British Literary and Popular Culture Collections. … New Director of the John Hay Library and Special Collections | Christopher Geissler

Drawn from the collections of Brown University Library, the exhibit investigates the poetic work of men and women incarcerated in the United States in the last decades of the twentieth-century. It is an open-ended examination of the challenges and potential for communication across the socio-economic divide engendered by mass incarceration. Online exhibit: Poetry from the Age of Mass … Exhibit | Poetry from the Age of Mass Incarceration

This stamp exhibit at the Anne S. K. Brown Military in the John Hay Library features a set of U.S. stamps that were produced in 1991 called U.S. Comedians on Stamps. The idea for these stamps started in 1981 when Howard Paine, the coordinator for the Stamp Committee, proposed doing some adventurous things, like seeing some … Exhibit | US Comedians on Stamps and the Process of Creating a Stamp Design

The Library and the Cogut Center for the Humanities are pleased to welcome Cheryl Ball, Associate Professor of Digital Publishing Studies at West Virginia University, who will present a talk entitled, “Exploring Two Decades in the Evaluation of Digital Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion,” at 11 a.m. on Friday, September 18, 2015 in the Digital Scholarship … Event | “Exploring Two Decades in the Evaluation of Digital Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion” with Cheryl Ball

The First Generation Low Income Partnership, or FLIP, is a completely student-run initiative aimed at making textbooks available to first generation Brown students and other Brown students challenged by the high cost of textbooks. Shelves in the Sorensen Family Reading Room on the first floor of the Rockefeller Library will contain a collection of donated textbooks … FLIP | Textbook Lending Library