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The Brown University Library recently acquired the papers of award-winning science fiction and dark fantasy writer Caitlin R. Kiernan. “In April 2011, I wrote a story featuring my recurring character Dancy Flammarion. The story was titled “Bus Fair,” and it concerns Dancy having to play a riddle game with a werewolf to get back a … Exhibit | Dancy Box by Caitlín R. Kiernan & Kathryn A. Pollnac
On Monday, November 20, 2017 at 12 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Scott Rettberg will give a talk entitled, “Combinatory Poetics in Electronic Literature and Cinema.” This event is free and open to the public. A light reception will follow the talk. Aleatory and combinatory poetic methods have been an … Event | Combinatory Poetics in Electronic Literature and Cinema with Scott Rettberg
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
