On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 from 4 – 5:30 p.m., the John Hay Library will host a faculty colloquium entitled Unicorn Found: Science, Literature, and the Arts. Part of the larger Unicorns in Residence: Providence initiative, the colloquium will feature a panel discussion with Brown professors from different disciplines engaging in scholarly inquiry into … Event and Exhibit | Unicorn Found: Science, Literature, and the Arts
The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London celebrates its 350th anniversary on March 6, 2015. Published since 1665, not only is it the oldest scholarly journal in the Brown University Library’s collections, it is believed to be the oldest scholarly journal in continuous publication. The Library is pleased to own a complete run in the original … 350th Anniversary of the Oldest Continuously Published Scholarly Journal
The Brown University Library celebrates Josiah Carberry every Friday the 13th. In honor of the 13th and Valentine’s Day, we invite you to enjoy cookies at the Rock and SciLi. Consider leaving your loose change in a Brown jug (AKA “cracked pot”) to benefit the Josiah Carberry Fund. Want to know more about Carberry and … Happy Josiah Carberry Day!
The John Hay Library takes great pleasure in announcing the opening of the Fernando Birri Archive of Multimedia Arts. It is an extraordinary collection documenting the long and continuing career of Fernando Birri, a celebrated and influential film maker, poet, writer, educator, artist, and theoretician. Fernando Birri was born in Santa Fe, Argentina in 1925 and is … Fernando Birri: Mi Patria Son Mis Zapatos
Library lovers across the state are invited to join the Rhode Island Library Association on Tuesday, February 10 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the RI State House Rotunda for RI Library Legislative Awareness Day. This is a chance to meet-and-greet your state legislators, tell your story, and explain why supporting RI libraries is so … RI Library Legislative Awareness Day
The Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women has a series of exciting events coming up this spring, which the Library, especially the University Archives, has been supporting. All these events are free and open to the public and are part of the Pembroke Center’s offerings for Brown’s 250th anniversary. Exhibit Opening: The Lamphere Case: … Events | Pembroke Center Explores Feminism in Academia
January 8, 2015 is the bicentennial of the Battle of New Orleans. Fought between an American force of around 5,000 men under Andrew Jackson and 7,500 British troops commanded by Sir Edward Pakenham, the outcome forced the British to leave Louisiana, thus ending the War of 1812. Five months later, the British and their Prussian … Exhibit | The Battle of New Orleans – The “Other” Battle of 1815
Brown will launch a new digital scholarship initiative this spring with a $1.3 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The initiative, to be administered jointly by the University Library and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, will support the development, publication, and preservation of digital publications, with an emphasis on long-form … Mellon-Funded Digital Scholarship Initiative
Sixteen sheets of the Smiler stamps are on exhibit in the Anne S.K. Brown Military Gallery of the John Hay Library from January 7 – March 4, 2015. The Smilers are part of the Brown University Library’s extensive stamp collections. The “Smilers” are a series of stamps first issued by Great Britain for the 2000 International … Exhibit | The Great Britain Smiler Sheets
The Special Collections Reading Room of the John Hay Library will be closed from December 24, 2014, thru January 9, 2015. From January 12 to January 20, 2015, the Special Collections Reading Room will be available by appointment only from 10am to 5pm, Monday through Friday. To request an appointment, please e-mail Hay@brown.edu prior to … Special Collections Hours during Intersession 2015
