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Rockefeller Library Space Closures | CNI-ARL Digital Scholarship Planning Workshop

From Wednesday, November 8 through Friday, November 10, 2017, the Brown University Library will host the CNI-ARL Digital Scholarship Planning Workshop at the Rockefeller Library. During this time, some of the spaces in the Rock will be unavailable. You will be able to access the stacks in every area of the Rock.  These spaces will Rockefeller Library Space Closures | CNI-ARL Digital Scholarship Planning Workshop

Event | Stars in his pocket… : A Conversation with Samuel R. Delany & Kara Keeling

On Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library, join us for “Stars in his pocket… : A Conversation with Samuel R. Delany and Kara Keeling.” The event will include an exhibit of Samuel Delany’s works and manuscripts from the Library’s collection. Free and open to the Event | Stars in his pocket… : A Conversation with Samuel R. Delany & Kara Keeling

Exhibit | Victorious Secret by Angela Lorenz ’87, P’18

Victorious Secret: The “Bikini Girls” are Winning the Pentathlon on view at the Rockefeller Library, from August 31 – November 20, 2017 Surprise! The nearly two-thousand-year-old mosaics from Villa Romana del Casale  in Sicily, known simply as the “bikini girls,” are really female athletes from prestigious Roman families. Brown University is the tenth venue for this traveling suite of triptychs, made of Exhibit | Victorious Secret by Angela Lorenz ’87, P’18

Exhibit | Scenes from Cuba’s War of Independence, 1895–1898

Chocolates E. Juncosa Advertising Cards Scenes from Cuba’s War of Independence,1895–1898. These advertising cards for the firm Chocolate E. Juncosa, in Barcelona, depict scenes from Cuba’s War of Independence, 1895–1898. Founded in 1835, the company offered cocoa and sugar of the finest quality. This set contains 36 numbered chromolithography cards with color illustrations and caption titles. The reverse of each Exhibit | Scenes from Cuba’s War of Independence, 1895–1898

OCLC WorldCat Down for Maintenance from 11 p.m. on August 5 to 8 a.m. on August 6

A new OCLC Community News item has been posted: “Reminder: OCLC system downtime planned 5-6 August”. ————————————————————————————- Reminder: As part of ongoing work to maintain and advance our systems, we will be performing a disaster recovery exercise on 5-6 August that will require system downtime. This work will be done in our U.S. data center OCLC WorldCat Down for Maintenance from 11 p.m. on August 5 to 8 a.m. on August 6

Exhibit: Hurra! Ein Kriegsbilderbuch…by Herbert Rikli

Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection Update A recent addition to the Military Collection is this first edition of a propagandized German illustrated children’s book published in Stuttart by Loewe in 1915. It contains 23 leaves of pages. The book glorifies the German war effort through a little child’s fantasy of vanquishing Germany’s enemies and Exhibit: Hurra! Ein Kriegsbilderbuch…by Herbert Rikli

JHL Conservation Bulletin | June 2017

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 Now that you have met him and seen his work: Gary Frost and the Sewn Boards Binding. “The classical ‘before and after’ contrast reveals the character of JHL Conservation Bulletin | June 2017

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