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“The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox”
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006, 7 p.m.
Lownes Room
John Hay Library
“The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox”
Nancy Rubin Stuart, MAT ’67
Award-winning author Nancy Rubin Stuart MAT ’67 will give a talk and slide presentation on her latest book, “The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox.” This work depicts the true-life tale of the beautiful Victorian teenager caught in a family web of greed and deception. Maggie Fox later rose to celebrity status as one of the founders of American spiritualism. Her alleged ability to communicate with spirits in America’s first séances of 1848-1850 astounded the press, made her and her sisters the darlings of Broadway, inspired thousands of child imitators, and fascinated the most prominent men and women of her era – among them, Horace Greeley, James Fenimore Cooper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Todd Lincoln, William Lloyd Garrison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and William James. In 2005 the Washington Post considered Ms. Stuart’s book “fascinating” and the Boston Globe called it “ a richly sympathetic portrait of a fascinating and tragic woman.” For additional information about the book and the author, see: http://www.thereluctantspiritualist.com/
Some related materials from the Brown University Library Special Collections will be exhibited in the Lownes Room. Ms. Rubin Stuart will be available for questions and a book signing at the conclusion of her talk.
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Rhode Island Women, Past, Present, and Future
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Thursday, March 2, 2006, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Lownes Room
John Hay Library
Exhibit, Panel Presentation, and Reception
The Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women and the Sarah Doyle Center, in association with the Friends of the Library, will celebrate an exhibit showcasing some of the Rhode Island and Pembroke women’s documents in the Christine Dunlap Farnum Archives. Listen to the Voices of Sophia, the new choir of Providence’s Sophia Academy. Hear an historian, an archivist, a student, an alumni and a donor of records talk about the importance of remembering what women have done. -
Use of Electronic Resources and Software Applications
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To: Members of Brown University
Members of the Brown community are reminded to be diligent regarding agreements the University has with vendors of electronic services and software. The Library currently makes available more than 12,000 ejournals and 275 third party proprietary databases. CIS offers many site licenses for software. Behind each of these services are license agreements which govern how the material can be used by individuals. These are, in effect, contracts, which are legal and binding documents between you and the software/service provider. Some carry specific limitations such as the purposes for which downloaded material can be used or the number of records that can be downloaded at any one time. Electronic resource providers are becoming increasingly sophisticated in monitoring use of their services; their ability to detect violations should not be underestimated. Additionally, such infringing uses of university resources and networks are contrary to Brown’s acceptable use policies and may result in sanctions being imposed by the University and or revocation of network privileges by the University.
The Library provides notice to users about licensing limitations through links from its web page. Some resources actually carry click through licensing terms which must be accepted before proceeding. Users have an obligation to read, be aware of, and observe the terms and conditions of use for all electronic resources. Software also carries agreements which should be read and understood before download takes place. Failure to take note and observe such terms and conditions of use puts the individual user at risk and potentially could result in termination of service to the entire campus. During the last year, services have been suspended to the entire campus more than once due to the actions of a single individual. We remind all members of the Brown community to please be aware of your legal obligations so that service will not be jeopardized for others. This is something to be taken seriously.
Ellen Waite-Franzen
Vice President, Computing & Information Services
Harriette Hemmasi
University Librarian