Celebrate National Library Week, April 12 – 18, with the theme “Unlimited possibilities @ your library®.” First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. It is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation’s libraries and librarians … Celebrate National Library Week
On Wednesday, April 15, at noon in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, Sinai Rusinek will give a talk entitled, “Unraveling Intertextualities in ‘The Star of Redemption.’” The “annotated star” is a project aiming to create a collaborative, dynamic digital edition of Franz Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption that will combine the tradition of the critical edition with … Event | Sinai Rusinek: Unraveling Intertextualities in “The Star of Redemption”
PLEASE NOTE: Stephen Downie’s keynote address has been RESCHEDULED for Friday, April 17 at 10 a.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library. The Virtual Humanities Lab in the Department of Italian Studies at Brown University, in collaboration with the Center for Digital Scholarship in the Brown University Library, will host an international … Event and Workshop | “The HathiTrust Research Center: Bringing you 4.7 billion pages of analytic opportunities!” with Steven Downie
The Library is celebrating Preservation Week with a talk about the conservation of our daguerreotypes on Friday, May 1 at 2 p.m. in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab at the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library. The talk, “Finding a Balance: Conservation of the Cased Images from the John Hay Library,” will be given by … Event | Finding a Balance: Conservation of the Cased Images from the John Hay Library – A Preservation Week Talk
The Brown University Library celebrates Josiah S. Carberry every Friday the 13th. Consider leaving your loose change in a Brown jug (AKA “cracked pot”) to benefit the Josiah Carberry Fund. The jugs are out on each Friday the 13th in the Rock and SciLi. Want to know more about Carberry and the Fund? Click here for more … Happy Josiah S. Carberry Day!
An exhibit featuring Lincoln stamps and covers and First Day Covers is on display in the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection Gallery at the John Hay Library. The exhibit will be available for viewing now through Wednesday, May 27, 2015. The Lincoln Covers In the world of philately, an envelope is referred to as a … Exhibit | Lincoln Covers and Stamps
The John Hay Library is pleased to host the Unicorn Found: Science, Literature, and the Arts exhibit, on display in the lobby cases and Willis Reading Room cases from March 11 – July 31, 2015. The exhibit features unicorn-related artifacts, objects, images, and text from the specialized collections of the Brown University Library, the Fleet … Exhibit | Unicorn Found: Science, Literature, and the Arts – In Person and Online
On Thursday, March 12 at 5:30 p.m. in the John Hay Library, esteemed author and authority on the literary macabre, Leslie S. Klinger will deliver a biographical overview of H. P. Lovecraft’s life and writing career and an assessment of his influence on subsequent literature. Klinger will also discuss the issue of Lovecraft’s racial views … Event | The Life and Literary Influence of H. P. Lovecraft with Author Leslie S. Klinger
As a senior at Brown, Malcolm Burnley ’12 discovered a story in the Brown Daily Herald about a 1961 visit Malcolm X made to campus in order to debate the author of a previous Brown Daily Herald story, Katharine Pierce ’62. In her article, Ms. Pierce argued that racial integration was necessary while Malcolm X … CBS News Report Features Two Brown Alumni, Malcolm X, and Materials from the Brown Archives
On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 2 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Martin Paul Eve will deliver a talk entitled, “Open Access in the Humanities: Benefits, Challenges, and Economics.” This event is free and open to the public. Martin Paul Eve is a Lecturer at the University of Lincoln, U.K., … Event | Open Access in the Humanities: Benefits, Challenges and Economics with Martin Paul Eve
