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
Take a break and eat some pizza at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, December 9 at the Sciences Library and Wednesday, December 10 at the Rock. Enjoy some rock candy for dessert! Sponsored by an ever true Brown family, the Library, and Campus Life.
Need a study break? Sunday, December 7 from 2 – 4 p.m. in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library, enjoy a couple of hours immersed in the world of medieval manuscripts, both on film and in the original vellum, as we watch feature film The Name of the Rose, based on the novel of the same … Movie with a Curator | The Name of the Rose
In response to students’ requests and the Library’s desire to provide students with safe, comfortable, and functional study spaces, three of the Brown University libraries will be open for extended hours during the upcoming reading and exam period at the end of fall semester. Beginning Saturday, December 6, the Rockefeller Library will be open from 7:30 a.m. … Library Extends Hours through Exam Period
On Thursday, December 4 at 5:30 p.m. in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library, Luther Spoehr, Senior Lecturer in Education, will give a talk, “Wayland and Magaziner and (Much) More: The Brown Curriculum through the Years.” Has Brown always been a place of curricular innovation? Did Francis Wayland’s mid-19th century reforms foreshadow the New … Lecture | Wayland and Magaziner and (Much) More: The Brown Curriculum through the Years | Luther Spoehr
On Monday, December 8 at 7 p.m. in Stuart Theatre, Oskar Eustis will deliver the 11th Annual Don Wilmeth Endowed Lectureship in American Theatre, entitled, “The Non-Profit Theatre in a Market Society.” A reception will follow the lecture. This event is free and open to the public. Artistic Director of The Public Theater since 2005, Oskar Eustis … Wilmeth Lecture | Oskar Eustis, “The Non-Profit Theatre in a Market Society”
The Brown University Library is celebrating the holiday season with an exhibit of Christmas Seals, installed in three cases in the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection Gallery at the John Hay Library. The exhibit will be on display through December 18, 2014. The seals shown above are the Great Britain Smiler Sheets, which were … Exhibit | Christmas Seals
“We students have adopted it as our own.” –Nancy L. Buc ’65, President, Student Government Association, Pembroke College, November 1964 Since its opening in November 1964, Brown students have embraced the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library. Designed by the architectural firm of Warner, Burns, Toan, and Lunde, the “Rock,” at the time of its … 50th Anniversary of the Rock
On Friday, November 14 from 7:30 – 10 p.m., the Rock will rock with live band Diamond Doves as the Brown University Library celebrates the 50th anniversary of the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library. The Rock will close at 5 p.m. on the 14th to allow for event preparations. No library services will be available after 5 … Rock at the Rock
On Wednesday, November 12 at 5:30 p.m. in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library, Beth Taylor, Senior Lecturer in English, will give a talk, “Letters Home: Brown Alumni at War.” Taylor, who is co-director of Brown’s Nonfiction Writing Program, has been collecting oral histories, documents, photographs, memorabilia, and letters home from veterans or widows … Lecture | Letters Home: Brown Alumni at War | Beth Taylor
